Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having large full eyes, like those of an ox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having large, full eyes, like those of an
ox .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having large round eyes like those of an ox
Etymologies
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ox + eyed
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Examples
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From Daneland sailed the oxeyed man, now mark well what I say. —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And whereas on the sixteenth day of the month of the oxeyed goddess and in the third week after the feastday of the Holy and
Ulysses 2003
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And whereas on the sixteenth day of the month of the oxeyed goddess and in the third week after the feastday of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, the daughter of the skies, the virgin moon being then in her first quarter, it came to pass that those learned judges repaired them to the halls of law.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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