pink eye
- a variation of pinkeye.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
This particular letter is entrusted to a messenger who had the pink-eye; the young doctor easily cured him, and the man having no money, begged to give some service.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by Phelps, William Lyon
"We've both got the pink-eye, and you don't want to catch it."
From Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon by Bailey, Arthur Scott
And he wished that Jimmy hadn't the pink-eye.
From Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon by Bailey, Arthur Scott
He answered, that he once had the pink-eye, and added, "now that's honest."
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
