eagle-eye



eagle-eye

1. n. a busybody; a person who watches or monitors other people’s actions: a floorwalker, a detective, a hall-monitor. Some old eagle-eye across the street saw me standing in the cold and called my wife who came down and let me in.
2. n. an eye or eyes with very keen vision. Keep your eagle-eye trained on the entrance.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
CassianKASH-ən (English)Ancient Roman (Anglicized)
BeulahBYOO-lə (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English
BennoBE-noGerman
Eliasə-LEE-əsh (Portuguese), e-LEE-ahs (German), E-lee-ahs (Finnish), i-LIE-əs (English), ee-LIE-əs (English)Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, Greek, Biblical Latin, Biblical Gr
Jehohanan-Biblical
Gavriilu-Old Church Slavic