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green-eyed

[green-ahyd]

adjective

Informal.
  1. jealous; envious; distrustful.



green-eyed

adjective

  1. jealous or envious

  2. jealousy or envy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of green-eyed1

First recorded in 1590–1600 in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596?), green being associated with envy
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"You are our flower, our baby and our green-eyed child."

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Jones was a strapping, green-eyed man whose emotive face seemed always at the brink of laughter or fury.

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The green-eyed 20-year-old Queen sat next to the Shah on a divan while he sat in his shirtsleeves telling the story of the flight.

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His mother, a green-eyed Creole woman raised in a country town just outside of Shreveport, La., moved the family to Compton.

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If you’re wondering how to turn the so-called green-eyed monster into a positive force in your life, here are five steps to take.

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