English

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• wall-eyed

Adjective

walleyed ‎(comparative more walleyed, superlative most walleyed)

1. having eyes with a pale coloured iris
2. having eyes of different colours
3. suffering from exotropia
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 3,

     […] this is the bloodiest shame, / The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, / That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage / Presented to the tears of soft remorse.

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 2,

     A nose of land ran out into the sea from Tanoo and split the village into two parts; the parts diverged at a slight angle, so that the village of Tanoo had a wall-eyed stare out over the sea.

   • 1967, Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, translated by Michael Glenny, Signet, Book One, Chapter 18, p. 197,

     The little man only came up to Poplavsky's shoulder, but he reduced him to mortal terror with his fang, his knife and his walleyed squint, and he had an air of cool, calculating energy.

4. (of fish) having bulging eyes

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