grey-eyedgray-eyedadj.
/ˈɡreɪˌʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪˌaɪd/ 1. Having grey eyes.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > types of eyes by colour > having
grey-eyed1534
green-eyed1553
blue-eyed1572
black-eyed1576
yellow-eyed1593
white-eyed1607
red-eyed?1609
ferret-eyed1699
golden-eyed1763
light-eyeda1795
pink-eyed1830
brown-eyed1865
sloe-eyed1869
1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 199v Shall I marye that reed heeded, grey eyed [L. caesiam], platerfaced, and hawkenosed wenche?
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xi. sig. L5 The gray eyde Doris. View more context for this quotation
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 88 Our womens names are more gratious than their Rutilia, that is, Red-head: Cæsilla, that is, Grey-eyed.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2272/4 A middle sized man..Grey eyed, and speaks broad.
1716 Royal Proclam. 5 May in London Gaz. No. 5431/1 Beetle-Browed, Grey-Eyed.
1772 P. Thicknesse Treat. Art Decyphering ii. 40 I have seen a lady, who was born deaf, write down in her common place-book, upon the entrance of a grey eyed stranger,..Puppies Eyes.
1826 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 2) I. 149 Among the Romans a grey-eyed child was considered as something disgusting.
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 16 A gray-eyed girl.
1914 Windsor Mag. 40 217/1 A debonair, grey-eyed gentleman.
1967 T. Wilder Eighth Day i. 67 To him came the wise goddess, the gray-eyed Pallas Athene, upbraiding him when he was discouraged.
2007 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 21 Nov. e1 The grey-eyed brunette plans to attend Aquinas College to major in science.
2. figurative. poetic. Designating dawn or the early morning.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > morning > [adjective]
earlyOE
rathea1425
matutinalc1450
matutinec1450
morning1535
antemeridian1592
betimely1594
grey-eyed1597
matins1643
ante-jentacular1796
matinal1803
matutinary1858
pre-luncheon1909
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 1 The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. View more context for this quotation
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 32 The grey-ey'd Morn.
1720 J. Gay Trivia i, in Poems I. 147 Soon as the gray-ey'd morning streaks the skies.
1794 J. Bidlake Poems 77 Soon as the grey-eyed dawn begins to rise, Man to his labour fresh and cheerful hies.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Mariana iii, in Poems 16 Till cold winds woke the grey-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist III. xvi. 331 From hour to hour of the midnight to the grey-eyed morn,..Sir Willoughby pursued Lætitia with solicitations to espouse him.
1920 ‘B. Chase’ Pages of Peace from Dartmoor xii. 83 Gray-Eyed Dawn lies late abed these December days.
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 Mar. c1 The unwarranted chirpiness..grates on those of us who greet grey-eyed morning with a groan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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