"sheep's eye" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: sheep's eyes [plural]
Etymology: From genitive of sheep + eye. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=sheep's eye}} sheep's eye (plural sheep's eyes)
  1. A secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance. Synonyms: cow eyes Related terms: sheepish Translations (a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance): kaihoisa katse (Finnish), occhi vitulini [masculine, plural] (Italian), влюблённый взор (vljubljónnyj vzor) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1864, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 250:",
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          "ref": "1875, Anthony Trollope, Never, never, -- Never, never: A Condensed Novel in Three Parts, after the Manner of Bret Harte:",
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          "ref": "2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 400:",
          "text": "No less an eminence than former President Taft himself (who had long cast a sheep's eye on the high court) privately called the nomination “one of the deepest wounds that I have ever had as an American and a lover of the Constitution and a believer in progressive conservatism.”",
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          "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
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          "note": "гла́зки m or pl (glázki) (a flirting look, lit.: \"little eyes\")",
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      "sense": "a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance",
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