Blue-eyed

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(idiomatic) Someone's favorite..

Definitions by Sense

1. (idiomatic) Someone's favorite.
2. Naive; innocent; ingenuous.
3. Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).

Example Sentences

blue-eyed boy

“I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks. Tell me what he was like as a boy.” “Oh, much the same as the rest of us.” “Nonsense!” “Except, of course, for rescuing people from burning buildings and saving blue-eyed children from getting squashed by runaway horses.” “He did that a lot?” “Almost daily.”

blue-eyed performer

Elijah Muhammad spoke of how in this wilderness of North America, for centuries the “blue-eyed devil white man” had brainwashed the “so-called Negro.”

Well then—if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains that may help to pass away one’s time—peradventure, I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other.

They were all of the same type. Rosy, blooming, fair-haired girls, with small straight features, and the mother’s bright blue eyes, but Bonny was the rosiest and the bluest-eyed of them all.

Then, the voice of the oldest of the Lay brothers, the leader of the pack, the tallest, the blackest-haired, the bluest-eyed.

Iconic Barbie may be blonder, bluer-eyed, richer, thinner, leggier and bustier than everyone else, but she's also “not special” and “disposable.”

Synonyms for blue-eyed

Antonyms for blue-eyed

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Word Forms

• more blue-eyed
• bluer-eyed
• most blue-eyed
• bluest-eyed

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