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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