eyeful
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Alternative forms
- eye-full
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
eyeful (plural eyefuls or eyesful)
- A full or complete view; a good look.
- (sometimes ironic) A remarkable sight or a very attractive person.
- Enough material to fill one's eye.
- I could barely see through two eyefuls of dust.
- an eyeful of tears
- (informal) A brief period of sleep; forty winks.
- 2021, Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS: 1943–45, page 272:
- We pulled our heavy overcoats tightly around us, shivering, and put our heads down as the din of fighting stopped for a while to grab an eyeful of sleep.
Etymology 2
Adjective
eyeful (comparative more eyeful, superlative most eyeful)
- Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
- 2000, Homer, Iliad and the Odyssey:
- With this, he hung them up aloft, upon a tamrick bough, As eyeful trophies [...]
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