Saturday 21 March 2015

Eyey

Eyey: adjective. While someone who is nosy pokes one's nose into other people's affairs, someone who is eyey uses one's eye(s). For example, while people poking their noses through keyholes to sniff perfume would be referred to as nosy, people looking through keyholes would be referred to as eyey. It might have occurred to some "smart cookie" readers among you that the word eerie also falls, or at any rate used to fall, into this category of words. Indeed, according to the Pseudo-Oxford-Dictionary (POD), 99.99% of the occurrences of the word eerie in modern literature are incorrect, as there continues to be only one definition: using one's ears to spy on other people's affairs.

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  2. Interesting.

    But how exactly would one decline it?

    eyey eyier eyiest

    or

    eyey eyeier eyeiest

    ?

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