four-eyed

[ fawr-ahyd, fohr- ]

adjective
  1. having or seeming to have four eyes.

  2. Slang: Usually Disparaging. wearing eyeglasses (sometimes used facetiously).

Origin of four-eyed

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby four-eyed

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How to use four-eyed in a sentence

  • Fisher had heard of the "four-eyed dude from New York" and heard something of his political reforming.

  • (p. 474) Three months later to a day, the man who had been Little Missouri's "four-eyed tenderfoot" was dead.

  • And now,' says he, knocking his fists together, 'NOW to get square with that four-eyed thief in the stern!

    Cape Cod Stories | Joseph C. Lincoln
  • So the Parsis, being at a loss to find four-eyed dogs, interpret the name as meaning a dog with two spots over the eyes.

    Cerberus, The Dog of Hades | Maurice Bloomfield
  • And the Vedic ritual in its turn has occasion to realize the mythological four-eyed dog in practice.

    Cerberus, The Dog of Hades | Maurice Bloomfield