glass eyes n.1
one who wears spectacles.
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Glass Eyes. A Nick name for one Wearing Spectacles. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
(con. 1914–18) Three Lights from a Match 254: Only ‘Glasseyed Ike’ there, washes his [...] ‘Glasseye,’ asked one of the men, ‘where the hell did you ever get that thing?’. | ||
Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 192: Occasionally he is ‘Eye balls’, ‘Glass eyes’, ‘Googlie eyes’. |
In phrases
to be drunk.
Gent.’s Mag. Dec. 560/1: To express the condition of an Honest Fellow [...] under the Effects of good Fellowship, [...] it is also said that he has– ...] 61. Got glass eyes. |