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Definition of Blue-eyed
1. Adjective. Favorite. "The fair-haired boy of the literary set"
2. Adjective. Having blue eyes.
Definition of Blue-eyed
1. Adjective. Of a person or animal, having blue eyes. ¹
2. Adjective. (idiomatic) Someone's favorite, as in blue-eyed boy ¹
3. Adjective. naive ¹
4. Adjective. performed by whites (Caucasians): blue-eyed jazz ¹
5. Adjective. Caucasian: blue-eyed performer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue-eyed
Literary usage of Blue-eyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"Again, when both parents are gray-eyed they have produced 9 gray-eyed to 2
blue-eyed children—indicating that both grays are DR (containing recessive blue) ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... stood Phoebus Apollo, winged darts in hand ; 80 And Enyalius to the blue-eyed
Maid ; And Here to gold-quiver'd Artemis, Dread huntress, sister-born to ..."
3. American Ballads and Songs by Louise Pound (1922)
"102 MY blue-eyed BOY There is a tree I love to pass, And it has leaves as green
as grass, ... Bring to me my blue-eyed boy! Bring, O bring him back to me! ..."
4. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"... curly hair Either all brown-eyed and Brown eye, curly hair curly-haired; or
one- fourth blue-eyed and also one-fourth of all straight- haired (with or ..."
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