glass eye
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- noun
- /ɡlæs aɪ/
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ojo de cristal
- After losing his real eye in an accident, he now uses a glass eye as a prosthetic.
- just a glass eye
- one glass eye
And this fellow BI they call him, he would, he had a glass eye or some type of textile eye.
- And this fellow BI they call him, he would, he had a glass eye or some type of textile eye.
- And this fella BI they call him, he would, he had a glass eye or some type of textile eye.
Examples
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She's gonna need a glass eye, Kevin.
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And after the cast came off and Jeff got used to his glass eye, we were best friends.
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I believe maybe it's because of my glass eye.
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Oh, yeah, he had a glass eye, way to go!
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Has anyone seen my glass eye?
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I think she has a glass eye.
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My brother used to have a teacher who had a glass eye.
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I have a glass eye, too.
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We had surgery on one eye when I was younger... so this is a glass eye.
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I'm sure the nice old janitor with the glass eye saved the day.
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun combines 'glass' (material) + 'eye' (body organ) in a straightforward compositional way to denote an eye made of glass used as a prosthetic. This material+object compound is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent noun-noun formation, so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer the meaning.
Etymology
Glass eye comes from a real object: an eye made of glass to look like a natural eye. These fake eyes were put into the face to replace a lost eye, so now glass eye means 'an artificial eye'.