walleye


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wall eye
noun
  • 1 an eye squinting outwards.
  • 2 an eye with a streaked or opaque white iris.
  • 3 (walleye) a North American pikeperch with large, opaque silvery eyes. [Stizostedion vitreum.]
– derivatives
wall-eyed adjective.
– origin C16: back-form. from earlier wall-eyed, from ON vagleygr; rel. to Icelandic vagl ‘film over the eye’.
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