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four-eyed
[ fawr-ahyd, fohr- ]
adjective
- having or seeming to have four eyes.
- Slang: Usually Disparaging. wearing eyeglasses (sometimes used facetiously).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of four-eyed1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
Fisher had heard of the "four-eyed dude from New York" and heard something of his political reforming.
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(p. 474) Three months later to a day, the man who had been Little Missouri's "four-eyed tenderfoot" was dead.
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And now,' says he, knocking his fists together, 'NOW to get square with that four-eyed thief in the stern!
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So the Parsis, being at a loss to find four-eyed dogs, interpret the name as meaning a dog with two spots over the eyes.
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And the Vedic ritual in its turn has occasion to realize the mythological four-eyed dog in practice.
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