Meaning of gooseberry eye | Babel Free

Definitions

A prominent, dull eye.

dated, idiomatic

Examples

“He enjoyed the Countess Rossakoff's society partly because of her aristocratic provenance, and he was not going to have his enjoyment spoiled by a spectacled little girl with boiled gooseberry eyes and a degree in psychology!”

“Aged only twenty, she caught the gooseberry eye of Lord Randolph Churchill. He proposed to her almost at once.”

CEFR level