noun
General Slang
eye-water
EYE-waw-tah · noun · informal
Tears
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Definitions
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The Creole word for tears, literally 'water from the eye'.
“The eye-water start to fall when she heard the news.”
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eye-water In A Sentence
The eye-water start to fall when she heard the news.
Origin & Usage
Pan-Caribbean; calque possibly from West African languages.
Variants
eyewater
People Also Ask
What does eye-water mean?
It's the Caribbean Creole word for tears — literally 'water from the eye'.
Where does the word eye-water come from?
It's a calque (word-for-word translation) thought to derive from West African languages, common across the Caribbean.
How do you use eye-water in a sentence?
You'd say 'The eye-water start to fall when she heard the news' to mean the tears began to flow.
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