blackeyedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

black-eyed (comparative more black-eyed or blacker-eyed, superlative most black-eyed or blackest-eyed)

1. Having a black eye.
2. Having the iris of a black color.
   • 1966, Paul West, chapter 16, in Alley Jaggers, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:

     This morning Keegan looks blacker-haired and blacker-eyed than ever before. The cold has plucked extra color into his cheeks and nose, and his outsized ears are flower-pot red.

   • 1995, Isabel Fonseca, “Out of the Mouth of Papusza: A Cautionary Tale”, in Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 4:

     Equally intolerable to her family was her desire, when the time came, to go with the blackest-eyed teenage boy in the tabor.

   • 2014, Harold E. Grice, “Born Young”, in California Country Boy, book I (Born Young: 1933 to 1937), Pacific Grove, Calif.: Park Place Publications, →ISBN, page 7:

     The black pup sits there, listening, watching. Momma looks at him. “If you aren’t the blackest-eyed dog I’ve ever seen,” she says. “We'll start calling you Blacky. […]”

3. as a part of a phrase

   black-eyed pea

   black-eyed Susan