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wall eye

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wall eye
noun
1 an eye with a streaked or opaque white iris.
an eye squinting outwards.
2 (walleye) a North American pikeperch with large, opaque silvery eyes. It is a commercially valuable food fish and a popular sporting fish.
Stizostedion vitreum, family Percidae.
– DERIVATIVES
wall-eyed /ˌwɔːlˈʌɪd / adjective
– ORIGIN early 16th century: back-formation from earlier wall-eyed, from Old Norse vagleygr; related to Icelandic vagl film over the eye.