blue-eyed

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blue-eyed

  1. (idiomatic) Someone's favorite.
    blue-eyed boy
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
      “I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks. Tell me what he was like as a boy.” “Oh, much the same as the rest of us.” “Nonsense!” “Except, of course, for rescuing people from burning buildings and saving blue-eyed children from getting squashed by runaway horses.” “He did that a lot?” “Almost daily.”
  2. Naive; innocent; ingenuous. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
    blue-eyed performer
    • 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, “Savior”, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, page 199:
      Elijah Muhammad spoke of how in this wilderness of North America, for centuries the “blue-eyed devil white man” had brainwashed the “so-called Negro.”
    1. (music) Written or performed by white people.
      blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue,‎ eyed (or eye, -ed).

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