Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) of a person, crooked, dishonest.

1833		D. Crockett Sketches and Eccentricities 23: In the slang of the backwoods, one swore that he would never be ‘one-eyed’ – that is dishonest.
1875		Cairo Bull. (IL) 24 Mar. 2/3: Can’t you see nothin’, you dash-dashed, aig-suckin’, sheep-stealin’, one-eyed son of a stuffed monkey!
1887		F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 4: The yaller, one-eyed cuss.
1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 195: ‘Johnny Lookout,’ the one-eyed person, escorted his victims out and up the street.
1911		C.E. Mulford Bar-20 Days 128: I’ve seen a one-eyed coyote som’ers lately, ain’t I?
1938		H. Asbury Sucker’s Progress 352: ‘There’s a one-eyed man in the game,’ meaning ‘look out for a cheat’.
1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 167: I know all about you one-eyed Canterbury crowds.
1977		J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 151: You turds couldn’t burn a one-eyed shoplifter.

2. (orig. US, also one-eye) of a place or object, inferior, inadequate, unimportant.

1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 129/1: But si ’ere gells, we doant want tu be shown up, speshally i’ this wun-eyed ‘crib’.
1899		C.J.C. Hyne Further Adventures of Captain Kettle 210: What does he want to go ashore for at a one-eyed hole like this?
1905		J.G. Cruickshank Negro Humour 63: Then [he] did what he called ‘one-eye’ jobs.
1906		Marvel 30 June 646: I never see such a one-eyed ’ole of a place, never in my puff!
1908		Leigh & Powell [perf. Marie Lloyd] Rum-tiddley-um-tum-tay! 🎵 We got landed down, / In some one-eyed town.
1914		W.L. George Making of an Englishman III 312: ‘One-eyed sort of place,’ she said; ‘let’s go to Skindles.’.
1916		‘Anzac’ On the Anzac Trail 164: [I]t’s a one-eyed kind of death to be drowned like rats in a trap.
1929		J.B. Priestley Good Companions 310: Dotworth certainly was a one-eyed hole.
1933		‘Goat’ Laven Rough Stuff 110: We decided to tear this one-eyed joint apart.
1939		P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 38: I hear that you was [...] singin’ at that one-eyed dump.
1953		T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 9: A little one-eyed joint you wouldn’t have heard of.
1970		A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 125: I went down the stairs whistling the same one-eyed tune I’d already heard with such scorn.
1972		B. Hannah Geronimo Rex 193: These white walls [...] were looking too much like a hospital for sanctimonious one-eyed fuckers.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 306: Noplaceville, one-eyed.
2004		(con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 9/2: We were one-eyed Anglophiles.

3. (orig. US/Aus.) used in a variety of combs. as the penis; other than those listed below, one-eyed bob, one-eyed guardsman, one-eyed pants python, one-eyed rocket.

1918		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 311: Columbo had a one-eyed mate. / He loved him like a brother, / And every night at seven bells, / They hopped upon each other!
1946		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 444: It’s as long as your arm an’ big as your thigh, / An’ the bald-headed bastard ain’t got but one eye.
1960		in O. Brand Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads 23: [ballad title] The One-Eyed Reilly.
2000		J. Buchman ‘feeling bad for u’ at TonyaHarding.com posting 12 May 🌐 I got down and proceeded to hit her in the shitter with a one–eyed critter until she fainted.
2001		A. Sillitoe Birthday 165: He’s giving her the one-eyed spitting cobra.