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See also: fish-eye, and fish eye

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Etymology

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From fish +‎ eye.

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Noun

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fisheye (countable and uncountable, plural fisheyes)

  1. An unfriendly or suspicious glance.
  2. An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface.
  3. An undesirable dull appearance in the table of a diamond that has been cut too shallow.
  4. Short for fisheye lens.
    • 2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The imaging unit is not without flaws, and it’s not as powerful as a professional hand-held S.L.R. camera. For example, there’s a noticeable fish-eye distortion in the image that comes from the unit’s really wide vision angle, and you can’t zoom the field of view.
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Verb

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fisheye (third-person singular simple present fisheyes, present participle fisheyeing, simple past and past participle fisheyed)

  1. (transitive) To glance unfriendlily or suspiciously at.