Cross-eyed or squinty.
Cross-eyed or squinty.
This first appears in the 19th century. It is defined in John Camden Hotten’s A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words, 1869 as:
“Boss-eyed – a person with one eye, or rather with one eye injured”.
The 1887 edition of Notes and Queries says – “To boss is schoolboy slang for ‘to miss’.”
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