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eye-apple

noun

Etymology

From Middle English ij appel, from Old English ēagæppel (“eyeball, pupil”), from Proto-West Germanic *augapl, equivalent to eye + apple. Cognate with West Frisian eachappel (“pupil”), Dutch oogappel (“eyeball; pupil”), German Augapfel (“eyeball”), Danish øjeæble (“eyeball”), Norwegian øyeeple (“eyeball”).

  1. inherited from *augapl✻
  2. inherited from ēagæppel — “eyeball, pupil”
  3. inherited from ij appel

Definitions

  1. The eyeball or pupil

  2. Synonym of apple of one's eye.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eye-apple. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA