walleyed
2
9.9
- adjective
- /ˈwɔːliˌaɪd/
- Specialized
- 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
1
8.2
Having eyes that do not look in the same direction
1
9.7
Having one eye that does not look in the same direction as the other eye
1
9.3
A person who has eyes that look in different directions
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
2
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.