单词 | black-eyed |
释义 | black-eyedadj. 1. Having black eyes (often regarded as a mark of beauty). Cf. black eye n. 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 1576 R. Robinson tr. F. Patrizi Moral Methode Ciuile Policie vii. f. 67 Men borne in the Southe partes..are..curle hayred, blacke eyed, their legges croked, and bendinge. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades i. 4 Nor will containe..his heauie hand before: The blacke eyde virgin [Gk. ἑλικώπιδα κούρην] be releast. 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie ii. i. sig. Ev Onely ours shal be the blacke eyde beauties of the time. 1656 A. Cowley Poems ix. 23 In her place I then obey'd Black-ey'd Besse, her Viceroy-Maid. 1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) i. 27 Egad, a very pretty black-eyed girl. 1845 J. F. Cooper Satanstoe I. v. 76 This Mari was a buxom,..laughing, red-lipped, pearl-toothed, black-eyed hussy. 1893 F. M. Elliot Diary Constantinople vi. 128 One little black-eyed child..spied me out as I left the carriage. 1939 Street & Smith's Western Story Mag. 23 Sept. 44/1 He glowered at the woman. ‘The luck of the dice is running against you,..you black-eyed little mink!’ 1978 J. Galway Autobiogr. (1979) v. 49 When I was a kid the big love of my life was the local skinman's black-haired, black-eyed daughter. 2003 Vogue Dec. 112/2 The pretty, black-eyed 28-year-old teaches orphaned children..in Lahore, Pakistan. 2. Designating any of several varieties of pea or bean having a black spot or mark on the seed. In later use: spec. a variety of the cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (cf. black-eyed bean n., black-eyed pea n. at Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [adjective] > of types of pulses or plants rouncival1570 phaseolous1681 black-eyed1683 long-pod1771 pea-flowered1853 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [adjective] > with black speck black-eyed1683 1683 R. Plot 11 Dec. in Houghton's Husb. & Trade Improv'd (1728) IV. 295 As for pease, do you sow hereabout the Henley-gray, the blue pea,..partridge pea, black-ey'd whites, [etc.] 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) July v. 42 The Marrow-fats are of two Sorts, the White-eyed, and the Black-eyed. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 138 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI Peas are cultivated for the table, market, stock... The ‘mountain crowder’ and ‘black-eyed’ are the most common varieties. 1869 Amer. Farmer June 356/2 What is known as the lady-pea, a small black-eyed variety, is perhaps the best for family use. 1912 C. V. Piper Agric. Varieties of Cowpea (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 83 In 1910 both the brown-eyed and black-eyed kinds bred true. 1973 Sunday Constit. (Lawton, Okla.) 18 Nov. 12 c/6 She wanted to plant Crowder peas and I wanted the old black-eyed variety. Compounds black-eyed bean n. the edible seed of a kind of cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata) having a distinctive black spot; (also) the plant that produces this bean, native to India but widely cultivated elsewhere; cf. black eye n. 3. ΚΠ 1833 Linnaea 8 268 P[haseolus] sphaerospermus (black eyed bean). 1868 A. Gray Field, Forest, & Garden Bot. 109 Black-eyed bean, with long peduncles bearing only 2 or 3 (white or pale) flowers at the end, the beans..white with a black circle round the scar. 1903 Forestry & Irrigation May 256 Part of the valley is given up to the ordinary white navy bean and the black eyed bean. 2007 G. Hunter et al. Professional Chef xvi. 396 Black-eyed beans are cream coloured with a black strip which is where they were joined in the pod. They work well in rice dishes. black-eyed pea n. any of several varieties of pea having a black spot or mark on the seed; (in later use) spec. = black-eyed bean n. ΚΠ 1738 R. Bradley Compl. Seedsman's Monthly Cal. (ed. 2) 3 Knight's round black-ey'd Pea, to be sown in the Spring, and will bear sticking up. 1786 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 56 They proceeded to sow the small black eyed pea. 1862 Chambers's Encycl. at Dolichos D. sphaerospermus (Calavana or Black-eyed Pea), a native of the West Indies. 1916 Iron Tradesman Apr. 127/1 Though warned by neighbors that he couldn't grow black-eyed peas on that land, he made the trade. 2008 A. Davidson Gargoyle (2009) xxviii. 397 For appetizers we had black-eyed pea fritters and fried plantains. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1576 |
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