gooseberry eye

noun

A prominent, dull eye.

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Meanings

noungooseberry eye (plural gooseberry eyes)

plural gooseberry eyes

  1. datedidiomaticA prominent, dull eye.

    Aged only twenty, she caught the gooseberry eye of Lord Randolph Churchill. He proposed to her almost at once.

    1984, Piers Brendon, “Father and Son”, in Winston Churchill: A Biography
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    He enjoyed the Countess Rossakoff's society partly because of her aristocratic provenance, and he was not going to have his enjoyment spoiled by a spectacled little girl with boiled gooseberry eyes and a degree in psychology!

    1947, Agatha Christie, “The Capture of Cerberus”, in The Labours of Hercules
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