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Grammar : Noun

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Définition of black eye

Origin :
  • "discoloration around the eye from injury" c.1600, from black (adj.) + eye (n.). Figurative sense of "injury to pride, rebuff" is by 1744; that of "bad reputation" is from 1880s. In reference to dark eyes, often as a mark of beauty, from 1660s. Black-eyed, of peas, attested from 1728. The black-eyed Susan as a flower (various species) so called from 1881, for its appearance. It also was the title of a poem by John Gay (1685-1732), which led to a popular British stage play of the same name in the mid-19c.
  • All in the Downs the fleet was moored,The streamers waving in the wind,When black-eyed Susan came aboard,"Oh! where shall I my true love find?Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true,If my sweet William sails among the crew?"
  • noun bad reputation
Example sentences :
  • The day was passed merrily, and I do not remember a fight, or a black eye, in the ship.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Bibi had a black eye; some punch he had run up against the day before.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • But Tog, which was the one with the black eye, was not to be justified.
  • Extract from : « Billy Topsail & Company » by Norman Duncan
  • A jab from someone's elbow had decorated Dulcie Vale with a black eye.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore » by Pauline Lester
  • "Just a black eye and some skin lacerations," the High Priestess said.
  • Extract from : « Pagan Passions » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • A little after nine, Mr. Parasyte came in, with a black eye and a broken head.
  • Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic
  • Then it was that we fought and he gave me a black eye and I gave him a bloody nose in return.
  • Extract from : « The Marx He Knew » by John Spargo
  • A mosquito had stung me badly on one lid so that I looked as if I had a black eye.
  • Extract from : « The Jolliest School of All » by Angela Brazil
  • "We'll settle this another time," said Dock, wiping his black eye.
  • Extract from : « Freaks of Fortune » by Oliver Optic
  • He got a black eye, but that didn't count, though you may not like to hear of it.
  • Extract from : « Red Pepper Burns » by Grace S. Richmond

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