WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
wall•eye /ˈwɔlˌaɪ/USA pronunciation
n., pl. -eyes, for 1. also -eye.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Fish[countable] Also called ˈwall•eyed ˈpike. a North American game fish with large eyes.
- Ophthalmology[uncountable] a condition in which the eye or eyes are turned outward.
wall•eyed
(wôl′īd′),USA pronunciation adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Ophthalmologyhaving eyes in which there is an abnormal amount of the white showing, because of divergent strabismus.
- Ophthalmologyhaving large, staring eyes, as some fishes.
- marked by excited or agitated staring of the eyes, as in fear, rage, frenzy, or the like:He stood there in walleyed astonishment.
- Ophthalmologyhaving an eye or the eyes presenting little or no color, as the result of a light-colored or white iris or of white opacity of the cornea.
- Old Norse vagleygr, equivalent. to vagl- (meaning uncertain; compare Icelandic vagl film over the eye) + -eygr -eyed; see eye; compare Old English waldenīge
- Middle English wawileghed, waugle eghed 1300–50
wall•eye
(wôl′ī),USA pronunciation n., pl. -eyes, (esp. collectively for 1, 2) -eye.
- FishAlso called walleyed pike, jack salmon. a large game fish, Stizostedion vitreum, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of northeastern North America;
pikeperch. - Fishany of various other fishes having large, staring eyes.
- Ophthalmologyan eye characteristic of a walleyed person or animal.
- Military(cap.) a series of television-guided bombs with high-explosive warheads, in production since the 1960s.
- back formation from walleyed 1515–25