Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a walleye or walleyes, as a horse.
- Showing much of the white of the eye; having a. large staring or glaring eye: as, the wall-eyed pike. See
pike , and cut underpike-perch . - See the quotation.
- Glaring; fierce; threatening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
walleyed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having divergent strabismus
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Examples
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All the fresh fish I caught wore murky faces, wall-eyed and pucker-mouthed so I slipped out of Louisiana into desperation, the current state I'm in.
30x30 Paul de Denus 2011
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Mode 7, £9.49 The first title to boast "digital actors", meaning its onscreen characters look like expressive humans rather than the usual collection of wall-eyed mannequins, this is a game of thought and intuition rather than dexterity.
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Its like asking, who do you love more, the straight-A, varsity athlete or your wall-eyed mulligan child?
A Conversation with Karen Russell author of St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves 2010
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Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning.
Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem. 2009
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While actually kinda handsome, he was also somewhat wall-eyed and was using that mild affliction to great effect, appearing totally out of it.
Binky Philips: The Damned at CBGB: The Night Punk Was Officially Born in the USA Binky Philips 2010
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If you view the image "wall-eyed", the 3D surface will be inverted.
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They share a passion for Boston Terriers and Julie's alternately humorous and heartrending book concerns—in addition to her relationship with Otto, a wall-eyed Boston and the main man in her life during her early 30s—her heroic work as a volunteer with Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue.
R.I.P.—and Long Live—Skippy Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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While actually kinda handsome, he was also somewhat wall-eyed and was using that mild affliction to great effect, appearing totally out of it.
Binky Philips: The Damned at CBGB: The Night Punk Was Officially Born in the USA Binky Philips 2010
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When your husband starts to look at you like a wall-eyed pike, tell him to go screw-himself!
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The whole cast are 20th Century Fox performers, the crooks led by Hugh Marlowe, customarily a solid citizen, backed by wall-eyed Jack Elam in one of his first notable roles.
Rawhide 2010
hernesheir commented on the word wall-eyed
A.k.a. strabismus.
June 15, 2010