1
: having blue eyes
2
: performed by whites
blue-eyed soul
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Warren has some experience with covering over the past as happened when her phony claim of being a blue-eyed Native American Cherokee descendent blew up.
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026
Blond, blue-eyed and perpetually tanned, Harmon served as Groucho Marx’s assistant on the 1961 CBS game show Tell It to Groucho, then starred as a girl in Hawaii who gets mixed up in a robbery in the beach party movie One Way Wahine (1965).
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
Today, sumo’s most anomalous competitors are white wrestlers like Aonishiki, a blue-eyed twenty-one-year-old rikishi from Ukraine.
—Joshua Hunt, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
And so Heyerdahl recast the island’s earliest settlers as members of a Caucasian race who had migrated from what is now Iraq or Turkey to the Americas and then across the Pacific, and who were tall, fair, blue-eyed, and bearded—not unlike Heyerdahl himself, as Pitts wryly observes.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026
Blond, blue-eyed and perpetually tanned, Harmon served as Groucho Marx’s assistant on the 1961 CBS game show Tell It to Groucho, then starred as a girl in Hawaii who gets mixed up in a robbery in the beach party movie One Way Wahine (1965).
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
Today, sumo’s most anomalous competitors are white wrestlers like Aonishiki, a blue-eyed twenty-one-year-old rikishi from Ukraine.
—Joshua Hunt, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
And so Heyerdahl recast the island’s earliest settlers as members of a Caucasian race who had migrated from what is now Iraq or Turkey to the Americas and then across the Pacific, and who were tall, fair, blue-eyed, and bearded—not unlike Heyerdahl himself, as Pitts wryly observes.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Blue-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blue-eyed. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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