Eye-apple
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The eyeball or pupil
- 2 Synonym of apple of one's eye.
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From Middle English ij appel, from Old English ēagæppel (“eyeball, pupil”), from Proto-West Germanic *augapl, equivalent to eye + apple. Cognate with West Frisian eachappel (“pupil”), Dutch oogappel (“eyeball; pupil”), German Augapfel (“eyeball”), Danish øjeæble (“eyeball”), Norwegian øyeeple (“eyeball”).