stink eye

noun

informal : a look expressing annoyance, resentment, or disapproval

—usually used with the

As I bumbled my way through the ordering experience in Boston, I could feel the regulars giving me the stink eye [=giving me a dirty look]. "Who is this clueless fool?" I imagined them thinking to themselves, as I accidentally cut off the woman ahead of me.

—Tim Schenck

And when a new intruder comes … into my cove,… I do what any good bass fisherman would do. I give him the stink eye.

—David Lansing

Word History

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above