bugeye
Americannoun
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bugeyes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bugeye
1880–85, bug 1 + eye, after the former practice of painting a large eye on each bow
Example Sentences
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Suited up in antiseptic green, he slipped on bugeye magnifying spectacles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Cromwell and John watched it unceasingly, the latter growing more and more relieved as the bugeye scudded nearer home and farther from the moving marvel.
From The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories by Bump, Charles Weathers
The wave that followed the engulfing of an acre of land lifted the little bugeye and nearly capsized it, at the same time ripping the wharf to pieces and snapping the moorings.
From The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories by Bump, Charles Weathers
The crew started forward and the Captain held the bugeye to its course to the strange island.
From The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories by Bump, Charles Weathers
I think it was a—a bugeye, some such name.
From Dorothy on a House Boat by Raymond, Evelyn
He had seen clam dredges bringing up bushels of soft-shelled, long-necked clams that the dredgers called "manos," and he had seen the famous Maryland "bugeyes" and "skip-jacks"—sailing craft used for dredging oysters.
From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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