单词 | mope-eyed |
释义 | mope-eyedadj. English regional in later use. Short-sighted.Johnson (1755) erroneously explains it as ‘blind in one eye’ following Ainsworth, who renders it by Latin luscus. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > short-sighted little-sighta1398 purblindc1450 narrow-sighted1593 thick-sighted1593 mope-eyed1606 short-sighteda1649 near-sighted1686 short-eyed1721 myopical1749 myopic1800 myoptic1849 myope1892 1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me sig. D3v I thinke thou art mop-ey'd this morning, giue me the booke. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 36 A mope-ei'd foole he rising, first was deem'd. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. H7 Mop-ey'd I am, as some have said, Because I've liv'd so long a maid. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Mop-ey'd (dim-sighted). Qui a la veuë courte. 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ II. at Lippus Having dropping, or waterish eyes; mopeyed. 1861 Temple Bar 1 174 He is not good-looking; he is mope-eyed and ungainly. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Mop-eyed, near-sighted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1606 |
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