English

Adjective

blue-eyed

1. Of a person or animal, having blue eyes.
2. (idiomatic) Someone's favorite, as in blue-eyed boy
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:

     “I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks. Tell me what he was like as a boy.” “Oh, much the same as the rest of us.” “Nonsense!” “Except, of course, for rescuing people from burning buildings and saving blue-eyed children from getting squashed by runaway horses.” “He did that a lot?” “Almost daily.”

3. naive
4. performed by whites (Caucasians): blue-eyed jazz
5. Caucasian: blue-eyed performer

Translations

Coordinate terms

• brown-eyed
• green-eyed