adj. (old).—See quots.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. MOON-EYED HEN. A squinting wench.

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  1792.  A. YOUNG, Travels in France (1787–9), p. 75. The English mare that carries me … is going rapidly blind. She is MOON-EYED.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. MOON-EYED HEN. A squinting prostitute.

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