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Eye-sore

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Something that is offensive to the sight. Sore is the Anglo-Saxon sar (painful) or swœr (grievous). It is painful or grievous to the eye.

“Mordecai was an eye-sore to Haman.”—DʹEstrange.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Extensive
Exter
Extinct Species [since the time of man]
Extravagantēs Constitutionēs
Extreme Unction
Extremes Meet
Extricate
Exult (Latin)
Eye
Eye-service
Eye-sore
Eye-teeth
Eye of a Needle
Eye of Greece (The)
Eye of the Baltio (The)
Eye of the Storm
Eyes
Eyed
Eyre
Eyre (Jane)
Ezour Veda or Yajûr Veda
F