sore-eyedadj. having sore eyes; also applied to sheath-billed pigeons, which have reddish caruncles round the eyes.
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a1733 in Prior's Poems (1733) III. 110 He's dropsical, she is sore-ey'd.
1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Epistlesi. ii, in tr. Horace Wks. (1826) II. 191 To him, that is a slave to desire or to fear, house and estate do just as much good as paintings to a sore-eyed person.