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wall eye

Definition of wall eye

noun

  • 1an eye with a streaked or opaque white iris.
  • an eye squinting outwards.
  • 2 (walleye) a North American pikeperch with large, opaque silvery eyes. It is a commercially valuable food fish and a popular sporting fish.
    • Stizostedion vitreum, family Percidae

Derivatives

wall-eyed

adjective

Origin:

early 16th century: back-formation from earlier wall-eyed, from Old Norse vagleygr; related to Icelandic vagl 'film over the eye'

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