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English
Adjective
red-eyed (comparative more red-eyed, superlative most red-eyed)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, eyed.
- Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.
They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.
1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- (of a person in a photograph) Having the pupils appearing red due to reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.
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References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “red-eyed”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumes II (P–Z, Supplement and Bibliography), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1535/414.