eyeful

plural eyefuls · plural eyesful · alternative eye-full

1. A full or complete view; a good look.

   Get an eyeful of this!

2. ironicsometimesA remarkable sight or a very attractive person.

   'Dat you, Robber? Lissen, Da Big Man muss be n'town. Whaddya mean yuh jes talked wit him 'n New York? Ah jes seen his gal 'n a Clearwater cab, one of da Stassen Company's. Headin' over da Causeway. Sho Ahm sartin. Cross ma heart. Couldn mistake dat eyeful.'

   1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 124

3. Enough material to fill one's eye.

   an eyeful of tears

   1 more example

   I could barely see through two eyefuls of dust.

4. informalA brief period of sleep; forty winks.

   We pulled our heavy overcoats tightly around us, shivering, and put our heads down as the din of fighting stopped for a while to grab an eyeful of sleep.

   2021, Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS: 1943–45, page 272

comparative more eyeful · superlative most eyeful · alternative eye-full

1. Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.

   With this, he hung them up aloft, upon a tamrick bough, As eyeful trophies [...]

   2000, Homer, Iliad and the Odyssey