blackeyeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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blackeye (plural blackeyes)

1. A drink of coffee with two shots of espresso added.

   Coordinate term: red-eye

2. A black-eyed species of white-eye, Zosterops emiliae (syn. Chlorocharis emiliae, mountain blackeye, olive blackeye).

参照

• blackeye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zosterops on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chlorocharis emiliae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chlorocharis emiliae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• eye black, eyeblack

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˌblæk ˈaɪ/

名詞

black eye (plural black eyes)

1. A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.

   Synonyms: (slang) blinker, (colloquial) shiner

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone."

2. (figurative) A defeat.
3. (figurative) Damage to a reputation.
   • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster (2003), p. 205:

     "He looked downward in mournful gloom at the skeet-shooting range he had ordered built for the officers on his headquarters staff, and he recalled the mortifying afternoon General Dreedle had tongue-lashed him ruthlessly in front of Colonel Korn and Major Danby and ordered him to throw open the range to all the enlisted men and officers on combat duty. The skeet-shooting range had been a real black eye for him, Colonel Cathcart was forced to conclude."

4. (dated) An eye having a dark iris, regarded as a point of beauty.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black,‎ eye.

参考

• black-eyed pea

アナグラム

• eye black, eyeblack