gooseberry-eyed

adjective

Having prominent and dull grey eyes.

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Meanings

adjectivegooseberry-eyed (comparative more gooseberry-eyed, superlative most gooseberry-eyed)

comparative more gooseberry-eyed · superlative most gooseberry-eyed

  1. BritisharchaicslangHaving prominent and dull grey eyes.

    He was a small, smug-faced, gooseberry-eyed man, quick in his movements, glib with his tongue, and full of the quaint shop-courtesy of eighty years ago […]

    1871, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, The Member for Paris, page 31

Origin

From gooseberry + eyed.

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APA

gooseberry-eyed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gooseberry-eyed

MLA

“gooseberry-eyed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gooseberry-eyed. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gooseberry-eyed,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gooseberry-eyed.

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