"side-eye" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsaɪdˌaɪ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-uk-side-eye.oga [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: side-eyes [plural]
Etymology: From side + eye. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|side|eye}} side + eye Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} side-eye (countable and uncountable, plural side-eyes)
  1. A sidelong look, particularly of animosity, judgment, or suspicion. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: evil eye#English:_disapproving look Translations (sidelong look of animosity or suspicion): Seitenblick [masculine] (German), prijek pogled [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), prek pogled (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-side-eye-en-noun-6pmwHdkN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: side eye

Verb

IPA: /ˈsaɪdˌaɪ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-uk-side-eye.oga [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: side-eyes [present, singular, third-person], side-eyeing [participle, present], side-eying [participle, present], side-eyed [participle, past], side-eyed [past]
Etymology: From side + eye. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|side|eye}} side + eye Head templates: {{en-verb|pres_ptc2=side-eying}} side-eye (third-person singular simple present side-eyes, present participle side-eyeing or side-eying, simple past and past participle side-eyed)
  1. (transitive) To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Eye Related terms: squint (english: especially the second sense) Translations (to look at out of the corner of one's eye): sandít (Hungarian), gledati iskosa (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-side-eye-en-verb-k79rDw6f Disambiguation of Eye: 26 74 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: side eye

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From side + eye.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "side-eyes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "side-eyeing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "side-eying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "side-eyed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "side-eyed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "pres_ptc2": "side-eying"
      },
      "expansion": "side-eye (third-person singular simple present side-eyes, present participle side-eyeing or side-eying, simple past and past participle side-eyed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "especially the second sense",
      "word": "squint"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Faye Kicknosway, “Hat Trick”, in Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, page xiv",
          "text": "When I'm working my attention isn't caught straight ahead into the blinkered page, it's side eyeing whatever's peripheral, whatever's random.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Lee Stringer, chapter 20, in Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, page 119",
          "text": "When we fell out in front for the trek to breakfast, we side-eyed Walter when he walked out the door. Me looking to find some something. In his eyes. In his walk. In the pores of his skin. Some sign. Any sign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 November 2, “Liberian Girl” [pseudonym] (commenter), “Hot Shot: Oprah [Winfrey] Visits Michael Jackson’s Children”, in That Grape Juice.net, archived from the original on 2017-05-25",
          "text": "But I do have to side-eye the fact that the interviews w/ the Jacksons are being aired in between episodes that deal with men being molested as children…it seems like it was intentional and that ish ain’t cool.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Z. Rider, chapter 7, in Ashley Davis, editor, Suckers: A Horror Novel, Erwin, Tenn.: Dark Ride Publishing, page 62",
          "text": "The show went well. Not the best on the tour, not even the best in the past month, but it went off without a hitch, despite everyone on the crew side-eyeing Dan, looking for him to start acting strange again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 12, Alex Prewitt, “Taylor Hall Raises the Bar for Himself, Devils in MVP-Caliber Season”, in Sports Illustrated, New York, N.Y.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-15",
          "text": "Seven months after his poolside epiphany, the 26-year-old [Taylor Hall] is sitting on a couch at Newark's Prudential Center, slugging from a protein shake and side-eying NHL Network highlights on the television.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 1, Nosheen Iqbal, “TLC: ‘I will never forget the day we were millionaires for five minutes’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-10",
          "text": "\"She'll be all right\", says [Tionne] Watkins, side-eyeing [Rozonda] Thomas with a cat-like grin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 16, Gretchen Reynolds, “You may not need to take 10,000 steps a day to reduce risk of heart disease, finds women’s study”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-01",
          "text": "A new study of activity and mortality in older women [...] also side-eyes the validity, utility and origin of the common 10,000-steps-a-day exercise goals built into so many of our phones and activity monitors and suggests, instead, that any moving, whether or not it counts as exercise, may help to extend people’s lives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "look at",
          "look at"
        ],
        [
          "corner",
          "corner#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "animosity",
          "animosity"
        ],
        [
          "judgmental",
          "judgmental"
        ],
        [
          "suspicious",
          "suspicious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsaɪdˌaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/En-uk-side-eye.oga/En-uk-side-eye.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-uk-side-eye.oga",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (RP)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "side eye"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to look at out of the corner of one's eye",
      "word": "sandít"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to look at out of the corner of one's eye",
      "word": "gledati iskosa"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "George Clooney"
  ],
  "word": "side-eye"
}

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