fish-eye

plural fish-eyes

1. alternativeAlternative form of fisheye.

   The girl gives him the fish-eye.

   1941, W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield), “The Great Man”, in W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1973, page 391

   2 more examples

   And the driver, some kind of cop, had given him the fish-eye as he passed.

   2000, George P. Pelecanos, Shame the Devil, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 10

   O’Leary was giving me the fish-eye again.

   2008, Ben F. Small, The Olive Horseshoe, Night Shadows Press, →ISBN, page 9

present singular third person fish-eyes · participle present fish-eyeing · participle present rare fish-eying · participle past fish-eyed · past fish-eyed

1. alternativeAlternative form of fisheye.

   The two broads were fish-eyein’ me.

   1979, Edwin Torres, “After Hours”, in Carlito’s Way, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1993, page 194

   2 more examples

   She fish-eyed me a good ten seconds before she told somebody to hand me my stuff.

   1989, Glen Cook, “Shadow Games”, in The Black Company Goes South (The Black Company), SFBC Fantasy, published 2002, page 196

   “You just fish-eyed me, boy. Don’t tell me it’s nothing. Hey! I’m talking to you.”

   2014, Kieran Shea, Koko Takes a Holiday, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 103