Etymology

bright-eyed

Today it means: eager and alert Full definition →

Middle English bryht yhed
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The story

  1. Middle English · inherited frombryht yhed
  2. English todaybright-eyed

From Middle English bryht yhed, equivalent to bright + eyed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.