black-eyed

comparative more black-eyed · comparative blacker-eyed · superlative most black-eyed · superlative blackest-eyed · alternative blackeyed

1. Having a black eye.
2. Having the iris of a black color.

   Equally intolerable to her family was her desire, when the time came, to go with the blackest-eyed teenage boy in the tabor.

   1995, Isabel Fonseca, “Out of the Mouth of Papusza: A Cautionary Tale”, in Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 4

   2 more examples

   This morning Keegan looks blacker-haired and blacker-eyed than ever before. The cold has plucked extra color into his cheeks and nose, and his outsized ears are flower-pot red.

   1966, Paul West, chapter 16, in Alley Jaggers, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212

   The black pup sits there, listening, watching. Momma looks at him. “If you aren’t the blackest-eyed dog I’ve ever seen,” she says. “We'll start calling you Blacky.[…]”

   2014, Harold E. Grice, “Born Young”, in California Country Boy, book I (Born Young: 1933 to 1937), Pacific Grove, Calif.: Park Place Publications, →ISBN, page 7

3. as a part of a phrase

   black-eyed pea

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   black-eyed Susan