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lazy eye

noun

, Informal.
  1. the deviating eye in strabismus.
  2. an amblyopic eye.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lazy eye1

First recorded in 1935–40

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Example Sentences

If his lazy eye denoted lethargy, his broad feet and short legs vouched for his sure-footedness.

"'Get thee back into the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore,'" I urged, but all he did was to open one lazy eye, and wink.

The Spaniard looks upon nature with a lazy eye, troubling himself little about anything that cannot be put to some immediate use.

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