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单词 green-eyed
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green-eyedadj.

Brit. /ˈɡriːnʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌaɪd/
Forms: see green adj. and n.1 and eyed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., eyed adj.
Etymology: < green adj. + eyed adj.In sense 2 apparently arising from association of jealousy with wrathful or choleric behaviour caused (in the theory of the humours) by an excess of choler or yellow bile; compare green adj. 3 and discussion at that entry.
1. Having green 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
1553 T. Paynell tr. Dares Faythfull & True Storye Destr. Troye sig. Cvii Patroclus fair of bodi, grene eied, strong shamfast, fearefull wt modestie, ryght vp, wise, liberal.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 23 When as ye green eyed Goddesse thus had heard dame Iunoes talk.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 152 Well featured, round-faced, flaxen-haired, green-eyed.
1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 65 How green-ey'd Neptune raves.
1938 Life 6 June 36 (caption) Red-haired, freckled, green-eyed, she passed her screen test.
1965 C. Bukowski Let. 25 Jan. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 126 I..move between the sheets far from the glory of the lucky soldiers and the green-eyed crapshooter.
2005 C. Alessio in T. Ardizzone Habit of Art 152 The green-eyed ladrón worked a strand of her shiny hair in his fingers.
2. figurative. In and after Shakespeare.
a. Describing and alluding to jealousy. Cf. green adj. 3.
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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [adjective] > jealous
jealousc1385
yellowc1405
jealisom1599
green-eyed1600
indlinga1614
zelotypinga1660
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 110 Shyddring feare, and greene-eyed iealousie. View more context for this quotation
1790 J. Thomson Denial II. xxvii. 52 The airy conceptions of a lover's brain, fabricated in the melancholy alembic of green-eyed jealousy.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 90 Green-ey'd grief, and dull despair.
1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xi. 51 Hellebore, like a girl-murderess, Green-eyed and sick with jealousy.
1958 S. Plath 21 Jan. in Unabridged Jrnls. (2000) 315 Jealous one I am, green-eyed, spite-seething.
1987 R. L. Barker (title) The green-eyed marriage: surviving jealous relationships.
2003 S. V. Didato Big Bk. Personality Tests ii. 38 Jealousy. That green-eyed beast, which lies dormant in the darkest reaches of the loving heart.
b. green-eyed monster n. (usually with the) jealousy.
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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > jealousy
jealousnessc1380
jealoustea1382
heart-burningc1425
jealousyc1425
zealousy1542
zelotypia1566
heartburn1579
yellownessa1586
yellows1601
green-eyed monstera1616
zelotypy1623
green eyea1845
jealous-hood1846
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 170 O beware iealousie. It is the greene eyd monster.
1738 London Mag. June 290/1 Ambition is a green-eyed Monster, that never sees Virtue in a true Light.
1804 Sporting Mag. 23 284 What he had uttered was under the influence of the ‘green-eyed monster’.
1883 M. E. Braddon Phantom Fortune (1884) xxxviii. 335 Devoured by the gnawing of the green-eyed monster.
2006 Slimming World Nov.–Dec. 41/1 Here's how to keep the green-eyed monster under control this party season and use a little well-handled jealousy to your own advantage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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