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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  1. 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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