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Meaning of gooseberry-eyed | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Having prominent and dull grey eyes.

British, archaic, slang

Examples

“He was a small, smug-faced, gooseberry-eyed man, quick in his movements, glib with his tongue, and full of the quaint shop-courtesy of eighty years ago […]”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

gooseberryish gooseberrylike goosebumped goosebumpy goosefleshed goosefleshy