Black Eye (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Black Eye

We gave the bottle a black eye, i.e. drank it almost up. He cannot say black is the white of my eye; he cannot point out a blot in my character.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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