Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected by the disease called frog-eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.
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Examples
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Balls, who reminds some of us of that much loved classic car, the frog-eyed Sprite, is a nerdy class-warrior who observed ‘So what?’ when David Cameron described the UK as having one of the highest levels of taxation.
Archive 2008-04-06 2008
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Balls, who reminds some of us of that much loved classic car, the frog-eyed Sprite, is a nerdy class-warrior who observed ‘So what?’ when David Cameron described the UK as having one of the highest levels of taxation.
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Here there's a ready acceptance of Healey replicas, frog-eyed Sprites, Cobras and Caterhams and train spotting is a recognized pasttime.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Here there's a ready acceptance of Healey replicas, frog-eyed Sprites, Cobras and Caterhams and train spotting is a recognized pasttime.
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I dreaded this noontime tradition (maybe because he was short and frog-eyed), but I gathered from the indifference of nearby grown-ups that somehow the chase was expected and should be accepted.
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The frog-eyed monster lay next to us, as if it were our love child.
The Bonesetter's Daughter TAN, Amy 2001
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Pulling up a stool to the counter, I made ready to consult the oracle, an oracle with chapped, red hands, frog-eyed behind her thick glasses.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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She came down on her bottom with a tooth-rattling crash and was face to face with him - his frog-eyed, large - pored face, his garlic-smelling hole of a mouth.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Those invitations they declined gracefully, Elayne perhaps a bit more so than Nynaeve; the memory of herself goggling at Galad like a frog-eyed girl was too fresh for her to be more than minimally polite to any man.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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"Do you mean to tell me that a frog-eyed, tentacular mass of slime from the farthest wash of the galaxy can be a Citizen-but this woman can not?"
Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982
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