walleyed

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See also: wall-eyed

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wawil-eghed, Middle English wolden-eiged (“having very light-colored eyes; having parti-colored eyes”), from Old Norse vagl-eygr (“having speckled eyes”), in turn from Old Norse vagl (“speck or beam in the eye”) (compare Icelandic vagl (“film over the eye”), Swedish vagel (“stye in the eye”)) and Old Norse eygr, from Old Norse auga, which is cognate to English eye.[1][2]

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Adjective

walleyed (comparative more walleyed, superlative most walleyed)

  1. Having eyes with a pale-coloured iris.
  2. Having eyes of different colours.
  3. Suffering from exotropia.
    • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      […] this is the bloodiest shame,
      The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
      That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
      Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 2, in Klee Wyck‎:
      A nose of land ran out into the sea from Tanoo and split the village into two parts; the parts diverged at a slight angle, so that the village of Tanoo had a wall-eyed stare out over the sea.
    • 1967, Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Michael Glenny, The Master and Margarita, Signet, Book One, Chapter 18, p. 197:
      The little man only came up to Poplavsky's shoulder, but he reduced him to mortal terror with his fang, his knife and his walleyed squint, and he had an air of cool, calculating energy.
  5. (of fish) Having bulging eyes.

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  1. ^ “walleye, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “wall-eyed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 2022-11-04.
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