ox-eyed
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Adjective
ox-eyed (comparative more ox-eyed, superlative most ox-eyed)
- Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox.
- Synonym: cow-eyed
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Homer useth that epithite of ox-eyed, in describing Juno, because a round black eye is the best
Derived terms
References
- “oxeyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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