onion-eyed
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Perhaps on "Talk Like Shakespeare Day," other politicians will resort to name-calling with phrases like, "thou churlish onion-eyed scullion," or "thou logger-headed, fat-kidneyed malt worm."
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- Having the eyes filled with tears, as if by the effect of an onion applied to them. And I, an ass, am onion-eyed. Shak., A. and C., iv. 2. 35.
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Perhaps on "Talk Like Shakespeare Day," other politicians will resort to name-calling with phrases like, "thou churlish onion-eyed scullion," or "thou logger-headed, fat-kidneyed malt worm."
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"barley-broth," "thou honeysuckle villain," "onion-eyed,"
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare -
Get the constable into the parlour, said I, with three or four of the forwardest of the mob, and produce one of the nymphs, onion-eyed, in a moment, with disordered head-dress and handkerchief, and let her own herself the person: the occasion, a female skirmish: but satisfied with the justice done her.
— Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
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