单词 | mole-eyed |
释义 | mole-eyedadj. Having very limited vision, extremely short-sighted (literal and figurative). Also: having very small or contracted eyes, resembling those of a mole. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > having dimness or poor vision darkOE dima1220 bissona1250 murka1300 mistedc1450 obfuscatec1487 spurblind1508 sand-blind1538 dim-sighted1561 blinking1568 dimmed1590 weak-sighteda1591 purblind1592 sand-eyed1592 thick-eyed1598 left-eyed1609 mole-eyed1610 blindish1611 mole-sighted1625 sanded1629 veiled1633 weak-eyed1645 scotomatical1656 mole-blinda1660 swimming1697 wavering1842 foggy1847 scotomatous1866 clouding1868 wall-eyed1873 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xxx. 149 But..farre mistaken was hee and mole-eid in this matter. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. xi. 91 Mole-eyed, thou mayest but burrow in the earth, Blind as that subterrestrial. 1859 All Year Round 30 Apr. 21/1 Oh, Macguelp, thou mole-eyed misuser of unpaid-for pigments. 1897 E. K. Chambers in Bookman Jan. 113/1 The German dissertation..has..the narrowness of mole-eyed outlook. 1999 A. Arensberg Incubus iii. ix. 99 That afternoon my perspective was typically feminine and mole-eyed, close to the ground. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1610 |
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