Definitions for walleyedˈwɔlˌaɪd

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

wall•eyedˈwɔlˌaɪd(adj.)

  1. having exotropia.

    Category: Ophthalmology

  2. having large, staring eyes, as some fishes.

    Category: Ophthalmology

  3. marked by excited or agitated staring of the eyes, as in fear or astonishment.

  4. having a milky whitish eye, as from an opacity of the cornea.

    Category: Ophthalmology

Origin of walleyed:

1300–50; ME wawileghed, waugle eghed < ON vagleygr=vagl- (meaning uncert.; cf. Icel vagl film over the eye) +-eygr -eyed; see eye ; cf. OE waldenīge

Princeton's WordNet

  1. walleyed(adj)

    having divergent strabismus

Wiktionary

  1. walleyed(Adjective)

    having eyes with a pale coloured iris

  2. walleyed(Adjective)

    having eyes of different colour

  3. walleyed(Adjective)

    suffering from exotropia

  4. walleyed(Adjective)

    having bulging eyes


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