English
Etymology
From eye + ball . Compare Middle English balle off the eye , balle of þe eyȝe ( “ eyeball ” , literally “ ball of the eye ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
eyeball (plural eyeballs )
the ball of the eye
1610-11 , William Shakespeare , The Tempest , Act I Scene 2
Go, make thyself like a nymph o' th' sea.
Be subject to no sight but thine and mine, invisible
To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape,
And hither come in't; go! Hence , with diligence!
( CB , slang ) a meeting
We had an eyeball last year.
( marketing , in the plural ) readership or viewership
( Caribbean ) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye .
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ball of the eye
Arabic: مُقْلَة اَلْعَيْن f ( muqlat al-ʿayn )
Armenian: ակնախնձոր (hy) ( aknaxnjor )
Belarusian: во́чны я́блык m ( vóčny jáblyk )
Bulgarian: о́чна я́бълка f ( óčna jábǎlka )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 眼球 (zh) ( yǎnqiú ) , 睛球 ( jīngqiú ) , 眼珠 (zh) ( yǎnzhū )
Classical Nahuatl: īxtelolohtli
Cornish: aval lagas m
Czech: oční bulva f
Danish: øjeæble n
Dutch: oogappel (nl) m
Esperanto: okulglobo
Estonian: silmamuna
Faroese: eygnasteinur m , eygnaknøttur m
Finnish: silmämuna (fi)
French: globe oculaire (fr) m
Georgian: თვალის კაკალი ( tvalis ḳaḳali )
German: Augapfel (de) m
Greek: βολβός του ματιού ( volvós tou matioú ) , βολβός του οφθαλμού m ( volvós tou ofthalmoú )
Haitian Creole: boul je
Hebrew: גַּלְגַּל עַיִן m ( galgál-áyin )
Hungarian: szemgolyó (hu)
Icelandic: augnknöttur m , auga (is) n
Italian: bulbo oculare m
Japanese: 眼球 ( がんきゅう, gankyū ) , 目玉 ( めだま, medama )
Khmer: គ្រាប់ភ្នែក ( kroap pnɛɛk )
Korean: 눈알 (ko) ( nunal ) , 안구 (ko) ( an'gu ) (眼球 (ko) )
Latin: bulbus oculi m
Latvian: acs ābols m
Macedonian: о́чно ја́болко n ( óčno jábolko )
Manx: clagh-hooilley f
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Norman: balle dé l'yi f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: øyeeple n
Nynorsk: augeeple n
Old English: ēaġæppel m
Polish: gałka oczna (pl) f
Portuguese: globo ocular m
Russian: глазно́е я́блоко (ru) n ( glaznóje jábloko )
Scottish Gaelic: clach na sùla f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: очна јабучица f
Roman: očna jabučica f
Slovak: očná buľva f
Slovene: zrklo (sl) n
Spanish: globo ocular m
Swedish: ögonglob c
Tagalog: buliga , bilumata
Telugu: కనుగుడ్డు (te) ( kanuguḍḍu )
Thai: ลูกตา
Tibetan: མིག་རིལ ( mig ril )
Turkish: göz yuvan , göz küresi (tr)
Ukrainian: о́чне я́блуко n ( óčne jábluko )
Vietnamese: cầu mắt , nhãn cầu (vi)
Volapük: logaglöp (vo)
Welsh: pelen y llygad f , cannwyll llygad f
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Yakut: харах мөкүнүгэ ( qaraq mökünüge )
Yiddish: אויגעפּל m ( oygepl )
Zhuang: ngveihda
Verb
eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs , present participle eyeballing , simple past and past participle eyeballed )
To gauge , estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely ; to look or glance at.
A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
To scrutinize
To stare at intently
Are you eyeballing my girl?
To roll one's eyes.
2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London) [1] :Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse.
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