BLUE-EYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue-eyed mean? 

• BLUE-EYED (adjective)
  The adjective BLUE-EYED has 2 senses:

1. favorite

2. having blue eyes

  Familiarity information: BLUE-EYED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE-EYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Favorite

Synonyms:

blue-eyed; fair-haired; white-haired

Context example:

the fair-haired boy of the literary set

Similar:

loved (held dear)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having blue eyes

Similar:

eyed (having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

They were pretty, blue-eyed, yellow-haired lads, well made and sturdy, with bronzed skins, which spoke of a woodland life.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am sure my fancy raised up something round that blue-eyed mite of a child, which etherealized, and made a very angel of her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The mother was at home—a little, fluffy, blue-eyed person, in a tremor of fear and indignation.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought of the blue-eyed child who had enchanted me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was a blonde, golden-haired, blue-eyed, and would no doubt have had the perfect complexion which goes with such colouring, had not her recent experience left her drawn and haggard.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For—don't you see,” said Mr. Omer, touching me with his pipe, “it ain't likely that a man so short of breath as myself, and a grandfather too, would go and strain points with a little bit of a blue-eyed blossom, like her?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was a very tall young man, golden-moustached, blue-eyed, with a skin which had been burned by tropical suns, and a springy step, which showed that the huge frame was as active as it was strong.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)