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词汇 boss-eyed
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Definition of boss-eyed in English:

boss-eyed

adjective ˈbɒsʌɪd
British informal
  • Cross-eyed or squinting.

    〈英,非正式〉斜眼的;斜视的

    a boss-eyed sidekick
    I was boss-eyed looking for you on TV
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia.
    • She ordered wine from a boss-eyed kid behind the bar who had a strange patch of greying hair at the back of his head like he'd fallen asleep against a blackboard.
    • Increasingly it feels as if the violence did not go away but was supplemented by a vile and damaging hatred among those who used to bring something more worthwhile to the ground than a boss-eyed devotion to one team.
    • He was standing at his door with a mug of tea in hand, boss-eyed after hours on the computer sending begging letters.
    • When I was at school in the 80s we used to have these awful Country Dancing lessons which involved prancing up and down our school hall beneath the boss-eyed instruction of a mad pensioner.

Origin

Mid 19th century: compare with dialect boss 'miss, bungle', of unknown origin.

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