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Definition of Pinkeyes
1. pinkeye [n] - See also: pinkeye
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinkeyes
Literary usage of Pinkeyes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"Cousin Jack nudged Browny, and slyly asked, "Who said pinkeyes was no fairy at all?
If it takes a rogue to find out a rogue, surely a fairy is the best one ..."
2. The Genesee Farmer (1851)
"... and some few of the others, more especially of those that grew amidst the
decaying vegetable matter. Most of the coarser variety of the Purple pinkeyes, ..."
3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1868)
"... and pure pinkeyes in the same hill and grew them together, and lo ! they turned
out true (the potatoes) to their kind, and continued so for ever after ! ..."
4. Story Plays Old and New by Alice Sumner Varney (1915)
"pinkeyes My name is pinkeyes. Man It is a very pretty name. And so your eyes are
pink. pinkeyes No, they are not, but my mother liked the name, ..."
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