- an amount of something such as liquid or dust that has been thrown, or blown into your eye
- an eyeful of sand
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- (informal) a person or thing that is beautiful or interesting to look at
- I’ve been told that she was quite an eyeful in her youth.
Idioms
See eyeful in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhave/get an eyeful (of something)
- (British English, informal) to look carefully at something that is interesting or unusual
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