| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: "Mordecai was an eye-sore to Haman." - 2: D'Estrange. 3: Eye-sore Something that is offensive to the sight. Sore is the Anglo-Saxon 4: Sar (painful) or swaer (grievous). It is painful or grievous to the eye. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | EYE-SORE. A disagreeable object. It will be an eye-sore as long as she lives, said by a limn whose wife was cut for a fistula in ano. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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