Walleyed

//ˈwɔːlaɪd// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having eyes with a pale-coloured iris.
  2. 2
    Having eyes of different colours.
  3. 3
    Suffering from exotropia.

    "[…] this is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse."

  4. 4
    Having bulging eyes.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having divergent strabismus wordnet

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bug eyedcockeyedpopeyed

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"[…] this is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wawil-eghed, Middle English wolden-eiged (“having very light-colored eyes; having parti-colored eyes”), from Old Norse vagl-eygr (“having speckled eyes”), in turn from Old Norse vagl (“speck or beam in the eye”) (compare Icelandic vagl (“film over the eye”), Swedish vagel (“stye in the eye”)) and Old Norse eygr, from Old Norse auga, which is cognate to English eye.

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