four eyes

Spectacled person's taunt

Four eyes is a playground taunt for someone who wears glasses, treating the lenses as a second pair of eyes.

The insult peaked in mid-twentieth-century childhood culture and now sounds dated, though it persists: The kids called him four eyes until he got contacts.

As an adjective, four-eyed: that four-eyed kid from math class.

Related

ocular · bookish · studious · geeky · nerdy · bifocals · teasing · lenses · nickname · look · taunt · playground insult · school · eyesight · frames · intellectual · Velma · astigmatism

Opposites
vision/appearance status

four eyesperfect vision

Optimal visual acuity

20/20 vision · eagle eye · sharp-eyed · hawk eye · hawk-eyed

social evaluation (insult vs. compliment)

four eyesgorgeous

Strikingly beautiful

handsome · dreamboat · looker · stunner · easy on the eyes

social evaluation/appearance

four eyescool kid

Socially admired young person

popular kid · normal · good-looking · hottie · dreamboat

Family

four, eyes, eye, fours, fourth, fourths, fourteen, fourteenth, forty

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG