单词 | green-eyed |
释义 | green-eyedadj. 1. Having green eyes. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1553 |
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