sheep's eye
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "those of an amorous roguish look derive their title even from the sheep, and we say such a one has a sheep's eye, not so much to denote the innocence as the simple slyness of the cast."
- "He had ever a sheep's eye for thee, and, if I remember rightly, thou wast sweet upon him once."
- "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.”"