rheumy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From rheum + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).

Her rheumy eyes glared affrighted at the sight of the only friend she recognized in all her mad, black world lying there across the table. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The huge folding doors were flung back, and the sight of so much food kindled a gleam in Sir Jeremy's rheumy eyes and waked a cackle from his lean throat. — The Passionate Elopement, Compton MacKenzie
"Toimes Oi've yanked Captain Fronte from th' road av harm," the old man was saying, and the red-rimmed, rheumy eyes shone bright; "wanst from in front av a char-rge av the hillmen an' wanst beyant Khybar. — The Promise: A Tale of the Great Northwest, James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

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