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eyesore

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Middle English eye sor

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Middle English · inherited fromeye sor
English todayeyesore

From Middle English eye sor, eie-sor, eyen soore, eæge-sare, equivalent to eye + sore.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.