walleyed
1
9.9
- adjective
- /ˈwɔːliˌaɪd/
- Specialized
:
estrábico
- The walleyed dog seemed confused as it looked in two different directions at once.
Examples
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After the accident, he developed a walleyed appearance that made it hard for him to focus.
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Your walleyed reject just won by 4 lengths.
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They especially like my walleyed gibbler.
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That poor walleyed bastard.
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He remembered Corky, the walleyed kid who, after one year, fled to college short two of the fingers he came on duty with.
Fiction book (1993) -
One small Lunette turns it aside and blankly stares off to the side like a big white old walleyed horse.
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She was not your walleyed, spindly-legged, thirty-year-old castoff, where men low-rate women the day they hit sixteen.
Fiction book (2001) -
She noticed the walleyed fish swimming erratically in the aquarium, unable to follow a straight path.
Synonyms
Having eyes that do not look in the same direction
A person who has eyes that look in different directions
Having one eye that does not look in the same direction as the other eye
Having eyes that look in different directions
Antonyms
Compounds
1
8.1
A freshwater fish like a pike with shiny silvery eyes found in North American lakes
How Aligned
- UK
- Specialized
1
9.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Walleyed comes from the older phrase wall-eyed, which people imagined as an eye looking toward a 'wall' or off to the side. So, walleyed describes eyes that turn outward or look in different directions.