four-eyed

7 9.8

A rude name for a person who wears glasses

adjective
/fɔr aɪd/

Offensive

: cuatro ojos

The kids in his class used to call him four-eyed because of his thick glasses.

Examples

She was teased for being four-eyed in school.
He overcame the hurtful four-eyed nickname he was given in school.
She was unfairly labeled as four-eyed by some of her peers.
Don't call him four-eyed just because he wears glasses.
Stop calling me names just because I'm four-eyed.
He made fun of her for being four-eyed, but she ignored him.
They teased the four-eyed boy for wearing glasses.

Synonyms

spectacled

vsfour-eyed

1 5.0

To wear glasses to help see

is a slang insult rather than a neutral descriptive label

specky

vsfour-eyed

Offensive

1 9.9

A person who wears glasses and is teased by others

is more insulting and derogatory than a teasing term

Surface Forms

four-eyed positive

Morphology

four-eyed = four + eye (transparent) = four + eye + ed

Formed by combining the numeral 'four' with 'eye' (plus adjectival '-ed'); the metaphorical sense 'as if having four eyes' (i.e., wearing glasses) is directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

The word four-eyed comes from joining four and eye, creating a picture of someone who seems to have 'four eyes' because glasses add two extra lenses. That's why four-eyed is a slang insult used for a person who wears glasses.