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OX-EYED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ox-eyed mean?
• OX-EYED (adjective)
The adjective OX-EYED has 1 sense:
1. having large round eyes like those of an ox
Familiarity information: OX-EYED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having large round eyes like those of an ox
Context example:
ox-eyed Juno
Similar:
eyed (having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination)
Context examples
He could not fail to see that the men with whom he was thrown in contact, rough-tongued, fierce and quarrelsome as they were, were yet of deeper nature and of more service in the world than the ox-eyed brethren who rose and ate and slept from year's end to year's end in their own narrow, stagnant circle of existence.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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