mope-eyed

English

Adjective

mope-eyed (comparative more mope-eyed, superlative most mope-eyed)

1. (archaic) short-sighted

   Synonym: purblind

   • c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!

   • 1891, “advert for Portland Oregonian”, in Printers' Ink‎^[1]:

     Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests

References

• “mope-eyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.