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eyethurl

noun

Etymology

From eye + thurl (“hole”), a modern calque of Old English ēagþyrel. Popularized by Susan Kelz Sperling’s 1977 book Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words (see quotation).

  1. derived from ēagþyrel

Definitions

  1. A window.

    • Hark! What light through yonder eyethurl breaks.
    • I was watching the sunset through our eyethurl when I heard strange slurping noises just a wurp away.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eyethurl. 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