blue-eyed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.93 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
adj
Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).
Example Sentences
- "blue-eyed boy"
- "“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.”"
- "blue-eyed performer"
- "Elijah Muhammad spoke of how in this wilderness of North America, for centuries the “blue-eyed devil white man” had brainwashed the “so-called Negro.”"
- "blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz"
- "Well then—if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains that may help to pass away one’s time—peradventure, I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other."
Inflected Forms
more blue-eyed (comparative)
bluer-eyed (comparative)
most blue-eyed (superlative)
bluest-eyed (superlative)
Phrases
blue-eyed black lemur
blue-eyed boy
blue-eyed cockatoo
blue-eyed cormorant
blue-eyed darner
blue-eyed grass
blue-eyed Mary
blue-eyed shag