eyesoren.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪsɔː/, U.S.

/ˈaɪˌsɔr/

Forms:

α. see eye n.¹ and sore n.¹

β. Middle English eghen sore, Middle English eyen soore.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, sore n.¹

Etymology: < eye n.¹ + sore n.¹In the Middle English forms eghen sore, eyen soore apparently with first element in the plural (compare 2α. forms at eye n.¹); however, such forms may perhaps represent the reflex of the Old English genitive phrase ēagena sār soreness of the eyes, in which ēagena is genitive plural (compare variant reading in quot. ?a1200 at sense 1). Compare also forms and discussion at eyesight n.

1. Soreness or disease of the eyes. rare and chiefly Indian English after 16th cent.In quot. ?a1300 perhaps an adjective; cf. eyesore adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > soreness

eyesore?a1200

eye-soreness1866

?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) xci. 135 Wið eæȝe sare [OE Vitell. eagena sare] & ȝeswelle cnuca ruta.

?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) ix, in Anglia (1881) 4 192 Betere is heye sor [a1325 Cambr. Gg 1.1 þe heie sore, a1350 Harl. eye sor], þen al blind.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 604 Therwith me may hele her eyen soore [c1450 Bodl. Add. eghen sore].

1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xvii. sig. Avii^v Muche lookyng so, breedth much eie sore.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 76 Dates..ar hurtfull for them that haue..the eysore and..the tooth ache.

1915 Times of India 20 Jan. 10/5 (advt.) Trial of Actima on one of my relatives suffering from eye-sore, proved miraculously good.

1964 Anthropos 59 116 The same treatment is used in the daytime if the child cries incessantly or suffers from diarrhoea, bronchitis or eye-sore.

1995 D. Varadarajan Cost-benefit Anal. Bio-gas Plants i. 7 The utilisation of bio-gas freed the housewives from eye-sore, eye and lung diseases.

a. Something that is highly unpleasant to look at; an ugly thing or feature; a blight, a monstrosity. In later use esp.: a building or structure regarded as spoiling or marring the appearance of its surrounding environment.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing

eyesore1530

blind side1606

dissightc1710

ugly1755

desight1828

eye-sorrow1828

sight1862

a blot (up)on the landscape1912

to be no oil painting1919

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. viii. sig. g Y^e spottes..be..a great deformyte & eye sore.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 263 These eysores and blemishes in continuall attendants about the seruice of Gods Sanctuarie.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. ii. 15 To bee..sickle hought behinde, that is somewhat crooked in the cambrell ioynt,..is not amisse, though it bee a little eye-sore.

1641 J. Taylor Brownists Conventicle 7 There is another crosse, which is our eare-sore, as well as our eye-sore, deare brethren, that is, those pipes.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 19/2 He is continually repenting and fretting at the Eye-sore.

1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire (ed. 2) I. 192 A rough grazing ground is an eyesore; a scab which disfigures the face of a country; and grows offensive with age.

1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 136 This, in parks much exposed, is found a very serious eye-sore.

1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry viii. 288 All the eyesores on the Surrey bank of the river.

1929 C. Beaton Diary 8 Dec. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) i. 9 I found that box trees..were put under these tents for winter protection, making the garden an eyesore for four months of the year.

1991 New Builder 12 Sept. 5/5 The department's current building..was built in the 1960s and has been universally condemned as a concrete eyesore.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 1 Sept. 4/1 The 50,000 square-foot facility lay abandoned, a moldering, barbwire-enclosed eyesore.

b. figurative and in extended use. A person or (less commonly) a thing whose presence is offensive, annoying, or troublesome (to someone); a nuisance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation

thornc1230

dreicha1275

painc1375

cumbrance1377

diseasec1386

a hair in one's necka1450

molestationc1460

incommodity?a1475

melancholya1475

ensoigne1477

annoyance1502

traik1513

incommode1518

corsie1548

eyesore1548

fashery1558

cross1573

spite1577

corrosive1578

wasp1588

cumber1589

infliction1590

gall1591

distaste1602

plague1604

rub1642

disaccommodation1645

disgust1654

annoyment1659

bogle1663

rubber1699

noyancea1715

chagrins1716

ruffle1718

fasha1796

nuisance1814

vex1815

drag1857

bugbear1880

nark1918

pain in the neck (also arse, bum, etc.)1933

sod1940

chizz1953

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xvi. f. 137 The Lazaro man beeyng ful of botches and blames, might not bee suffred to come in, leste with the syghte of hym beyng deadly to beholde, he myght haue bene an iyesore to all the coumpaignie, and myghte turne the merye there of al the whole feaste into sadnesse.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 47/1 in Chron. I I wote well how great an eye sore [1587 eiesore] I am in your sight.

a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 98 Thou shalt be a burthen, and an Eye sore to thy friends.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxvi. 353 Wicked men, to whom his Person for his piety was an eye-sore.

1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 125 The French..to whom they [sc. the isles of Jersey, Guernsey, etc.] have always been an Eye-sore, to have them so near their Coast, and yet in the English Possession.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. ii. 205 The onion patches of Pyquag were a continual eye sore to the garrison of Van Curlet.

1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) x. 206 Many of their neighbours are eyesores to them, and the very sight of them interrupts their repose.

1957 G. Brandes Naturalism in 19th Cent. Eng. Lit. xxi. 339 Wherever he resided, he was an eyesore to the Austrian authorities.

2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 2/5 Tariq became an eyesore and was publicly censured for his decisions and behaviour.

†c. On a horse: a scar; (also) a flaw, a defect. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses

trench?a1450

colt-evilc1460

affreyd?1523

cholera1566

crick1566

incording1566

leprosy1566

taint1566

eyesore1576

fistula1576

wrench1578

birth1600

garrot1600

stithy1600

stifling1601

stranglings1601

hungry evil1607

pose1607

crest-fall1609

pompardy1627

felteric1639

quick-scab1639

shingles1639

clap1684

sudden taking1688

bunches1706

flanks1706

strangles1706

chest-founderingc1720

body-founder1737

influenza1792

foundering1802

horse-sickness1822

stag-evil1823

strangullion1830

shivering1847

dourine1864

swamp fever1870

African horse sickness1874

horse-pox1884

African horse disease1888

wind-stroke1890

thump1891

leucoencephalitis1909

western equine encephalitis1933

stachybotryotoxicosis1945

rhinopneumonitis1957

1576 Remedies Dis. Horses sig. Aiv^v Let the horse ryse and with one dressyng it will ridde.., without any eye sore or blemishe.

1678 London Gaz. No. 1346/4 A dapple grey Gelding..an eye sore above his hoof upon one of his hinder legs.

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 18 He's the best piece of Man's flesh in the Market, not an Eye-sore in his whole body.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4795/4 An Eye-sore on the near hind Foot caused in Pacing.

1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 352 I found both horses in pitfalls,..bruised, and with horrid, unsightly scars and eyesores on them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

eyesoreadj.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪsɔː/, U.S.

/ˈaɪˌsɔr/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, sore adj.¹

Etymology: < eye n.¹ + sore adj.¹Much earlier currency (in sense 2) is perhaps shown by quot. ?a1300 at eyesore n. 1; compare note at that entry.

1. Esp. of a building or landscape: unpleasant to look at; ugly, unsightly. Cf. eyesore n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective]

foulOE

uglyc1386

malgraciousa1393

unsightlya1400

loathc1400

ouglec1415

shrewdc1430

unsightyc1440

unwholesome?a1500

evil-favoured1530

ill-favoured1530

uglisome1530

huggeda1533

hard-favoureda1535

evil-liking1535

ill-favorited1579

stigmatical1589

stigmatic1597

sightlessa1616

hard-featured1638

grislya1681

bad-looking1757

unmackly1765

unfavourable1776

dissightly1777

eyesore1798

wavelled1886

spiderly1891

Plain Jane1912

hackit1985

1798 G. Washington Let. 5 Apr. in Papers (1998) Retirement Ser. II. 227 Injurious and eye-sore gullies.

1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xviii. 361 Her cavaliere servente, finding her bald, meagre, and eyesore, renewed his addresses to the mother.

1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 59 Antiquated and eyesore erections.

1974 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 19 Sept. Some of the most eyesore areas in the country.

2013 Chorley Citizen (Nexis) 13 June An eyesore building which has been a blot on Chorley's town centre for a decade.

2. Having sore or tired eyes.

ΚΠ

1842 J. F. Murray Environs London 173 We are now somewhat weary and eye-sore with much picture-viewing.

1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure xxxiv. 328 Dusty and eyesore and deeply begrimed as to our garments, [we] set foot..in Agra.

1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 27 Feb. (2000) 340 And so, eyesore & tetchy, to bed & tomorrow less grim.

1999 C. E. Eaton Scout in Summer 17 A pitched aesthetic of assaulted vision... One should be eyesore when the sun sets red.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eyesore
释义	eyesoren. Brit. /ˈʌɪsɔː/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌsɔr/ Forms: α. see eye n.¹ and sore n.¹ β. Middle English eghen sore, Middle English eyen soore. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, sore n.¹ Etymology: < eye n.¹ + sore n.¹In the Middle English forms eghen sore, eyen soore apparently with first element in the plural (compare 2α. forms at eye n.¹); however, such forms may perhaps represent the reflex of the Old English genitive phrase ēagena sār soreness of the eyes, in which ēagena is genitive plural (compare variant reading in quot. ?a1200 at sense 1). Compare also forms and discussion at eyesight n. 1. Soreness or disease of the eyes. rare and chiefly Indian English after 16th cent.In quot. ?a1300 perhaps an adjective; cf. eyesore adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > soreness eyesore?a1200 eye-soreness1866 ?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) xci. 135 Wið eæȝe sare [OE Vitell. eagena sare] & ȝeswelle cnuca ruta. ?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) ix, in Anglia (1881) 4 192 Betere is heye sor [a1325 Cambr. Gg 1.1 þe heie sore, a1350 Harl. eye sor], þen al blind. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 604 Therwith me may hele her eyen soore [c1450 Bodl. Add. eghen sore]. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xvii. sig. Avii^v Muche lookyng so, breedth much eie sore. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 76 Dates..ar hurtfull for them that haue..the eysore and..the tooth ache. 1915 Times of India 20 Jan. 10/5 (advt.) Trial of Actima on one of my relatives suffering from eye-sore, proved miraculously good. 1964 Anthropos 59 116 The same treatment is used in the daytime if the child cries incessantly or suffers from diarrhoea, bronchitis or eye-sore. 1995 D. Varadarajan Cost-benefit Anal. Bio-gas Plants i. 7 The utilisation of bio-gas freed the housewives from eye-sore, eye and lung diseases. 2. a. Something that is highly unpleasant to look at; an ugly thing or feature; a blight, a monstrosity. In later use esp.: a building or structure regarded as spoiling or marring the appearance of its surrounding environment. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing eyesore1530 blind side1606 dissightc1710 ugly1755 desight1828 eye-sorrow1828 sight1862 a blot (up)on the landscape1912 to be no oil painting1919 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. viii. sig. g Y^e spottes..be..a great deformyte & eye sore. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 263 These eysores and blemishes in continuall attendants about the seruice of Gods Sanctuarie. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. ii. 15 To bee..sickle hought behinde, that is somewhat crooked in the cambrell ioynt,..is not amisse, though it bee a little eye-sore. 1641 J. Taylor Brownists Conventicle 7 There is another crosse, which is our eare-sore, as well as our eye-sore, deare brethren, that is, those pipes. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 19/2 He is continually repenting and fretting at the Eye-sore. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire (ed. 2) I. 192 A rough grazing ground is an eyesore; a scab which disfigures the face of a country; and grows offensive with age. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 136 This, in parks much exposed, is found a very serious eye-sore. 1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry viii. 288 All the eyesores on the Surrey bank of the river. 1929 C. Beaton Diary 8 Dec. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) i. 9 I found that box trees..were put under these tents for winter protection, making the garden an eyesore for four months of the year. 1991 New Builder 12 Sept. 5/5 The department's current building..was built in the 1960s and has been universally condemned as a concrete eyesore. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 1 Sept. 4/1 The 50,000 square-foot facility lay abandoned, a moldering, barbwire-enclosed eyesore. b. figurative and in extended use. A person or (less commonly) a thing whose presence is offensive, annoying, or troublesome (to someone); a nuisance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation thornc1230 dreicha1275 painc1375 cumbrance1377 diseasec1386 a hair in one's necka1450 molestationc1460 incommodity?a1475 melancholya1475 ensoigne1477 annoyance1502 traik1513 incommode1518 corsie1548 eyesore1548 fashery1558 cross1573 spite1577 corrosive1578 wasp1588 cumber1589 infliction1590 gall1591 distaste1602 plague1604 rub1642 disaccommodation1645 disgust1654 annoyment1659 bogle1663 rubber1699 noyancea1715 chagrins1716 ruffle1718 fasha1796 nuisance1814 vex1815 drag1857 bugbear1880 nark1918 pain in the neck (also arse, bum, etc.)1933 sod1940 chizz1953 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xvi. f. 137 The Lazaro man beeyng ful of botches and blames, might not bee suffred to come in, leste with the syghte of hym beyng deadly to beholde, he myght haue bene an iyesore to all the coumpaignie, and myghte turne the merye there of al the whole feaste into sadnesse. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 47/1 in Chron. I I wote well how great an eye sore [1587 eiesore] I am in your sight. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 98 Thou shalt be a burthen, and an Eye sore to thy friends. 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxvi. 353 Wicked men, to whom his Person for his piety was an eye-sore. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 125 The French..to whom they [sc. the isles of Jersey, Guernsey, etc.] have always been an Eye-sore, to have them so near their Coast, and yet in the English Possession. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. ii. 205 The onion patches of Pyquag were a continual eye sore to the garrison of Van Curlet. 1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) x. 206 Many of their neighbours are eyesores to them, and the very sight of them interrupts their repose. 1957 G. Brandes Naturalism in 19th Cent. Eng. Lit. xxi. 339 Wherever he resided, he was an eyesore to the Austrian authorities. 2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 2/5 Tariq became an eyesore and was publicly censured for his decisions and behaviour. †c. On a horse: a scar; (also) a flaw, a defect. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses trench?a1450 colt-evilc1460 affreyd?1523 cholera1566 crick1566 incording1566 leprosy1566 taint1566 eyesore1576 fistula1576 wrench1578 birth1600 garrot1600 stithy1600 stifling1601 stranglings1601 hungry evil1607 pose1607 crest-fall1609 pompardy1627 felteric1639 quick-scab1639 shingles1639 clap1684 sudden taking1688 bunches1706 flanks1706 strangles1706 chest-founderingc1720 body-founder1737 influenza1792 foundering1802 horse-sickness1822 stag-evil1823 strangullion1830 shivering1847 dourine1864 swamp fever1870 African horse sickness1874 horse-pox1884 African horse disease1888 wind-stroke1890 thump1891 leucoencephalitis1909 western equine encephalitis1933 stachybotryotoxicosis1945 rhinopneumonitis1957 1576 Remedies Dis. Horses sig. Aiv^v Let the horse ryse and with one dressyng it will ridde.., without any eye sore or blemishe. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1346/4 A dapple grey Gelding..an eye sore above his hoof upon one of his hinder legs. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 18 He's the best piece of Man's flesh in the Market, not an Eye-sore in his whole body. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4795/4 An Eye-sore on the near hind Foot caused in Pacing. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 352 I found both horses in pitfalls,..bruised, and with horrid, unsightly scars and eyesores on them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). eyesoreadj. Brit. /ˈʌɪsɔː/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌsɔr/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, sore adj.¹ Etymology: < eye n.¹ + sore adj.¹Much earlier currency (in sense 2) is perhaps shown by quot. ?a1300 at eyesore n. 1; compare note at that entry. 1. Esp. of a building or landscape: unpleasant to look at; ugly, unsightly. Cf. eyesore n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] foulOE uglyc1386 malgraciousa1393 unsightlya1400 loathc1400 ouglec1415 shrewdc1430 unsightyc1440 unwholesome?a1500 evil-favoured1530 ill-favoured1530 uglisome1530 huggeda1533 hard-favoureda1535 evil-liking1535 ill-favorited1579 stigmatical1589 stigmatic1597 sightlessa1616 hard-featured1638 grislya1681 bad-looking1757 unmackly1765 unfavourable1776 dissightly1777 eyesore1798 wavelled1886 spiderly1891 Plain Jane1912 hackit1985 1798 G. Washington Let. 5 Apr. in Papers (1998) Retirement Ser. II. 227 Injurious and eye-sore gullies. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xviii. 361 Her cavaliere servente, finding her bald, meagre, and eyesore, renewed his addresses to the mother. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 59 Antiquated and eyesore erections. 1974 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 19 Sept. Some of the most eyesore areas in the country. 2013 Chorley Citizen (Nexis) 13 June An eyesore building which has been a blot on Chorley's town centre for a decade. 2. Having sore or tired eyes. ΚΠ 1842 J. F. Murray Environs London 173 We are now somewhat weary and eye-sore with much picture-viewing. 1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure xxxiv. 328 Dusty and eyesore and deeply begrimed as to our garments, [we] set foot..in Agra. 1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 27 Feb. (2000) 340 And so, eyesore & tetchy, to bed & tomorrow less grim. 1999 C. E. Eaton Scout in Summer 17 A pitched aesthetic of assaulted vision... One should be eyesore when the sun sets red. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1200adj.1798
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