fish-eye

See also: fish eye and fisheye

English

Noun

fish-eye (plural fish-eyes)

1. Alternative form of fisheye.
   • 1941, W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield), “The Great Man”, in W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1973, page 391:

     The girl gives him the fish-eye.

   • 2000, George P. Pelecanos, Shame the Devil, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 10:

     And the driver, some kind of cop, had given him the fish-eye as he passed.

   • 2008, Ben F. Small, The Olive Horseshoe, Night Shadows Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     O’Leary was giving me the fish-eye again.

Verb

fish-eye (third-person singular simple present fish-eyes, present participle fish-eyeing or (rare) fish-eying, simple past and past participle fish-eyed)

1. Alternative form of fisheye.
   • 1979, Edwin Torres, “After Hours”, in Carlito’s Way, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1993, page 194:

     The two broads were fish-eyein’ me.

   • 1989, Glen Cook, “Shadow Games”, in The Black Company Goes South (The Black Company), SFBC Fantasy, published 2002, page 196:

     She fish-eyed me a good ten seconds before she told somebody to hand me my stuff.

   • 2014, Kieran Shea, Koko Takes a Holiday, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 103:

     “You just fish-eyed me, boy. Don’t tell me it’s nothing. Hey! I’m talking to you.”