BLACK-EYED

Definition: BLACK-EYED

BLACK-EYED

Adjective

1. Having black eyes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BLACK-EYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Crosswords: BLACK-EYED

Except I'm less worried about hitting my thumb, and more worried about going all black-eyed baddy and bewitching that hammer into cracking my friends' skulls open like coconuts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

N' Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

Those black-eyed peas ("Goodbye Earl"; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

Black-Eyed Susan (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (reference)

• The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea (reference)

• Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African-American Spirit and Encourage the Heart (reference)

• White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming of Age Black in White America (reference)

• Animal Eye Colors: Yellow-Eyed Stalkers, Red-Eyed Skulkers & Black-Eyed Speedsters (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Chinese 

豇 (black-eyed beans, cowpeas). (various references)

Danish

vignabønne (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea), koaert (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea). (various references)

Dutch

katjang pandjang (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea), cowpea (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea). (various references)

Finnish

lehmänpapu (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea). (various references)

French

pois yeux noirs (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea), pois canne (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea), pois à vache (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea), niébé (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea), dolique en cosse (black-eyed pea pods), dolique de Chine (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea). (various references)

German

Langbohne (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea), Kuherbse (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea), Kuhbohne (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea), Cowpea (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea), Augenbohne (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea). (various references)

Greek 

Οι τρυφεροί χέδρωπες της Vigna sinensis.Τρώγονται ως βραστή σαλάτα (black-eyed pea pods, cowpea pods, southern pea pods), βίγνα η σινική (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea), δόλιχος η σινική (blackeye bean, blackeyed pea, black-eyed pea, cow pea, cowpea, Southern pea). (various references)

Italian

dagli occhi neri. (various references)

Manx

doo-hooillagh (dark-eyed). (various references)

Maya

peelon (black-eyed peas). (various references)

Pig Latin

ack-eyedblay.(various references)

Spanish

de ojos negros. (various references)

Swedish

svartögd. (various references)

Ukrainian

чорноокий. (various references)

Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata. (various references)

Misspellings

"BLACK-EYED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blackeye, blass-ee. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lackeyed.

-2 letters: belaced, belayed, blacked, debacle, dyeable.

-3 letters: backed, balked, beadle, beaked, becked, bedeck, belady, cabled, calked, clayed, debeak, deckel, deckle, dyable, lacked, lackey, leaked, yacked.

-4 letters: abele, ackee, alkyd, badly, baked, baldy, baled, balky, bayed, beady, beaky, bedel, belay, black, blade, bleak, bleed, cable, caked, cakey, celeb, clade, cleek, debye, decal, decay, delay.