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gimlet-eyed

adj

Definitions

  1. Having a squint.

  2. Having eyes which are in constant motion

    Having eyes which are in constant motion; shifty-eyed.

  3. Having piercing eyes, sharp-sighted.

    • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley 'D—n her gooseberry wig,' said the corporal, when she was out of hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade—mother adjutant, as we call her—is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, ...
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    1. Having keen vision.

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