boss-eyed

1. 1.

   (British informal) cross-eyed

   Similarcross-eyed

   colloquialism · United Kingdom

Questions about boss-eyed

What does boss-eyed mean?

boss-eyed means "(British informal) cross-eyed".

How many syllables are in boss-eyed?

boss-eyed has 2 syllables and divides as bos-s-eyed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is boss-eyed a common word?

boss-eyed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.