WALL EYE


Meaning of WALL EYE in English

■ noun

1》 an eye squinting outwards.

2》 an eye with a streaked or opaque white iris.

3》 ( walleye ) a North American pikeperch with large, opaque silvery eyes. [ Stizostedion vitreum .]

Derivatives

wall-eyed adjective

Origin

C16: back-form. from earlier wall-eyed , from ON vagleygr ; related to Icelandic vagl 'film over the eye'.

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