blue-eyed
Americanadjective
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having blue eyes.
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having or representing childlike innocence.
Etymology
Origin of blue-eyed
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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A blue-eyed humanoid robot carefully opens a box and places a tool inside as a crowd of visitors watch the demonstration of "physical AI" skills at a major industrial trade fair in Germany.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
One parachutist—a slim, blue-eyed 22-year-old named Hannah Senesh—gave a thumbs-up, walked calmly to the edge of the hatch and jumped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
"As a little boy he was blonde-haired, blue-eyed, full of mischief," Jayne tells me in the living room of the family home.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
“Every time the copters go up to spray, we’ll go into virgin territory or old Medfly problem areas and release a minimum of several thousand blue-eyed Medflies. We are organized, patient and determined.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
The other woman was a young, blonde, blue-eyed Dutch Jew with flawless false identity papers supplied by the Dutch national underground itself.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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