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Blue-eyed

Blue-eyed \Blue"-eyed`\, a.

  1. Having blue eyes.

  2. favorite. [informal]

    Syn: fair-haired(prenominal), white-headed(prenominal).

Wiktionary
blue-eyed

a. 1 Of a person or animal, having blue eyes. 2 (context idiomatic English) Someone's favorite, as in blue-eyed boy

WordNet
blue-eyed
  1. adj. favorite; "the fair-haired boy of the literary set" [syn: blue-eyed(a), fair-haired(a), white-haired(a)]

  2. having blue eyes

Usage examples of "blue-eyed".

The small book-crammed sitting room of the Mifflins, the sparkling fire, the lively chirrup of the bookseller reading aloud--and there, in the old easy chair whose horsehair stuffing was bulging out, that blue-eyed vision of careless girlhood!

So I became one of his blue-eyed boys - we got really chummy - and that was his mistake because we managed to wreck his network completely.

Even when Citrine was at her most peaceful there was a brooding cynicism in her blue-eyed gaze that should not reside in a child so young.

The earthworm, a bright, smart young kid from Omaha, Nebraska, with that corn-fed, scrubbed-face, blue-eyed look that you associate with Midwesterners, was pointing at the high-frequency end of the spectrum.

Blond and blue-eyed, he looked much like Glyn, but he was slender where the King was heavyset.

Gord must have seemed not to have been alert as he quickly appraised what was happening to his fellows, for the blue-eyed foeman launched an incautious rush that not only missed its mark but enabled Gord to deliver a vicious set of counterattacks.

That and his hair and his clothes had all been developed to make him seem like a cool norteamericano, not the jumpy, emotional Mexican that blue-eyed Duluth voters were afraid of.

A man, a blue-eyed, fair-haired Mexican, dressed in a silver embroidered charro suit suddenly leaped on tathe dais to join her as the music changed to a fandango.

The man was simply dressed in white drill, and his face looked no darker than that of any white man condemned to live in a banana republic like this: the girl, wearing a sort of loose, wrappery robe, looked to me rather a doll, at first, for she was golden-haired and blue-eyed, not over-tall, but very graceful and well-built.

He may, like a blue-eyed person, have two copies of the same allele, or he may have any two alleles chosen from the half dozen alternatives available in the population at large.

Even little Kiki, blond, blue-eyed, beruffled, looked as if a support had been knocked out from under her.

Major Frank Moorman, 40, a native of Michigan, was a blue-eyed, brown-haired Regular Army man who had worked his way up through the infantry ranks from private.

Blue-eyed and foxy-looking behind the dense brown growth of his beard and pais, Pincus in his dark, outdated suits presided over the courtroom in a style bordering on tyrannical.

Blond, blue-eyed Dan Pressman seemed more alert, and was watching Bill the way a parent watches a child.

Not that I believe it, sir, but Sir Arthur does, and the result of that, sir, is that Sir Arthur thinks bloody Sharpie is a blue-eyed boy.