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Chiefly in:   right-wind , left-wind , wind-nut

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • Your gross stupidity and parochial in-bred attitudes are alarming — even for a right-wind nut (Right Wing Nut House, blog comment, May 3, 2005)
  • His government was preceded by a left-wind government who attempted to negotiate with the Palestinian side and their answer was a huge outbreak of violence. (Political Crossfire forum, Oct 17, 2004)
  • The only good thing that will come out of this being substantiated is being able to watch the wind nuts try to spin it. (USCHO forum, July 2, 2005)
  • No, this has nothing to do with a “good ole boys club” so you left-wind feminists can calm down. (The Chronicle of Higher Education, forum post, Nov 29, 2004)
  • Catholicism and right-wind politics expurge any serious debate on this issue. (Guardian News blog, comment, February 22, 2005)

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I found this reinterpretation puzzling at first because the adjectives _right-wing_ and _left-wing_ aren’t particularly obscure. It probably relies on the metaphor of the political wind that blows from a particular direction.

| link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/10/14 |

Commentaries

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    Commentary by Ken Lakritz , 2005/10/15 at 11:33 pm

    ‘beery-eyed’ for ‘bleary-eyed.’ To be bleary eyed is to have ‘dull or reddened eyes as from exhaustion or lack of sleep.’ Or from beer. 600 ghits vs 400k ghits. Examples:

    There is no seeing him unshaven and beery eyed in the morning.
    www.norajean.com/BonsaiTr…

    I can’t tell you how many beery-eyed guys with funny fez hats knocked on my door
    in the middle of the night, but they did not receive a very warm reception.
    www.doitregistration.com/…

    His heel crushed like velvet through the alien’s smug beery-eyed stare. It
    snarled menacingly and whispered invitingly, “Naughty human!
    pounce.skew.org/storytime

    You need t’hook up with Master Templeman and come on over to this
    side of th’Pond and we’ll all get beery-eyed in Manhattan together.
    www.ovationfanclub.com/cg…

    … ‘This is London in all its rain-sodden, beery-eyed,nervy exhilaration’…
    dutyoffice.com/content/xm…

    “If you’re going to support a losing team,” was the sage council given me by a
    beery-eyed sportsman with a Coventry parlance, “it’s best to lose to Brazil.
    www.sfweekly.com/issues/1…

    The original idea to reincarnate one of the H-boats was the beery eyed result of
    brainstorming by:. Bruce MacGowan; Gary Rockwell and; Mike Crutchlow …
    www.omg.unb.ca/Heron/CSL_…

    “Some beery-eyed mariners even said they could see the skeletal faces of crewmen
    staring blankly out the pilothouse windows!”
    mimufon.org/2002%20articl…

    Demigods to the masses of beery-eyed supporters, pinups to any 12-year-old boy,
    and any mother’s pride and joy.
    www.meinderttalma.nl/pers…

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