单词 | eye-soreness |
释义 | eye-sorenessn. 1. The condition of having sore eyes; inflammation or soreness of the eyes. Also: an instance of this. Cf. eyesore adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > soreness eyesore?a1200 eye-soreness1866 1866 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. Nov. 583 The evil which may be considered as locally permanent is eyesoreness, or ophthalmia. 1872 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Oct. 465/2 I ran through all the orthodox treatments for neuralgia from the hyssop on the wall in the shape of quinine, even to the cedar of Lebanon, or blisters and arsenic to eye-soreness. 1910 Jrnl. Engineers' Soc. Pennsylvania Mar. 119 Have had men there nine months who have not made any complaints of eye soreness. 1963 G. Tucker Dawn like Thunder xiii. 224 The glaring sun of the summer months, taken with the sand particles which filled the air.., induced an eye-soreness or ophthalmia. 2004 Australian (Nexis) 30 Sept. 9 It immediately triggered sneezing, eye-soreness, running noses and headaches. 2. Offensive ugliness; the quality or state of being an eyesore (eyesore n. 2a). Somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] uglinessc1340 foulnessa1398 dishonestyc1400 deformityc1450 laidure1483 ugsomeness1483 evilfavouredness1535 ill-favouredness1565 hard-favouredness1585 deformedness1588 disgrace1596 unsightliness1611 disfavour1706 hard-featuredness1839 eye-soreness1883 1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 333/1 A bower of charm to the æsthetic sense in the midst of a dirty money-grubbing eye-soreness. 1926 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 25 Feb. 8/1 A garage owner, actually planning to eliminate all the eye-soreness from his building! 2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 May 26 Whatever one's views of its [sc. a wind turbine's] eye-soreness, at least it will provide a topic of conversation during the interval picnic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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