four-eyed
Americanadjective
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having or seeming to have four eyes.
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Slang: Usually Disparaging. wearing eyeglasses (sometimes used facetiously).
Etymology
Origin of four-eyed
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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And now—as if sent to drive away sad thoughts and vain regrets—before our feet lay a jest of Nature’s, almost as absurd as a ‘four-eyed fish,’ or ‘calling-crab.’
From At Last by Kingsley, Charles
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