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Definition: Black Eye |
Black EyeNoun1. A bruise caused by a blow to the eye. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Ecchymosis of the eyelid. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BLACK EYE. We gave the bottle a black eye, i.e. drank it almost up. He cannot say black is the white of my eye; he cannot point out a blot in my character. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Black EyeSynonym: shiner (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Black Eye |
| English words defined with "black eye": largemouth, largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass ♦ Micropterus dolomieu, Micropterus salmoides ♦ Shore lark, smallmouth, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass, Sun spots ♦ velvet duck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "black eye": AMPOULE EXAMINER ♦ Black is White ♦ Donders hair optometer, Donders'wire optometer ♦ hollised ♦ INNATE, Irish Wedding ♦ Onchocerciasis, Ocular ♦ Pig-eyes ♦ RGB ♦ Worth four-dot test. (references) |
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Screenplays | A black eye heals, but cowardice has an unlimited shelf life. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You know, I got a black eye once for kissing the bride. (Cab Waiting; writing credit: E.K. Nadel; Paul Girard Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Black Eye (1974) The Tale of a Black Eye (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The honeymoon is over : he gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye." Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases. |
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Expressions using "black eye": give a black eye ♦ give smb. a black eye ♦ he gave him a black eye. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "black eye"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vend i mavijosur nën syrin, turp (attaint, bashfulness, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, taint, turpitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كدمة (black and blue, bruise, bump, contusion), عار (bare, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, naked, nude, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, taint, unclad, uncovered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | синина (extravasation, lividity), лоша репутация (disreputation, disrepute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | modřina na oku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mustelma (a black eye, bruise, haematoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oeil poché au beurre noir, oeil au beurre noir, "il poché, "il au beurre noir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Veilchen (shiner, sweet violet, Viola, Violet, violets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | monokli (eye-glass, mice, monocle, mouse, quizzing glass, quizzing-glass, single eyeglass), véraláfutásos szem (red eyes, red-rimmed eyes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | occhio nero (shiner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackblay eyeay vergonha (abashment, crying shame a, disgrace, indigo, mortification, obnoxious, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma), desonra (attaint, blemish, brand, contempt, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, obloquy, scandal, seduction, shame, stain, stigma). (various references) i-a învineţit ochiul (he gave him a black eye). (various references) подбитый глаз. (various references) modro oko, modrica oko oka (mouse). (various references) ojo morado. (various references) blått öga. (various references) มีรอยเขียวช้ำบริเว"ตา (จากถูกชกหรือกระแทก) (get a black eye). (various references) morarmış göz (shiner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Black Eye" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blackeye. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-k-l-y" | |
-2 letters: lackey. | |
-3 letters: abele, ackee, balky, beaky, belay, black, bleak, cable, cakey, celeb, cleek, lacey, leaky, lycea, lycee. | |
-4 letters: able, ably, abye, acyl, akee, alec, alee, alky, back, bake, bale, balk, beak, beck, blae, cake, caky, calk, clay, eely, kale, keel, lace, lack, lacy, lake, laky, leak, leek, leke, yack, yelk. | |
-5 letters: aby, ace, alb. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 63 6B 45 79 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01000101 01111001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a c k   E y e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0063 006B 0045 0079 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36786769772399171 |
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