1 an amount of sth such as liquid or dust that has been thrown, or blown into your eye:
an eyeful of sand
2 (informal) a person or thing that is beautiful or interesting to look at:
I've been told that she was quite an eyeful in her youth.
IDIOMS
have / get an eyeful (of sth) (BrE, spoken) to look carefully at sth that is interesting or unusual
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for eyeful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is eyeful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, eyeful is tagged as noun.
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