Gimlet-eyed

Full definition of gimlet-eyed

Adjective

1. Having piercing eyes, sharp-sighted.
• 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley'D--n her gooseberry wig,' said the corporal, when she was out of hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade -- mother adjutant, as we call her -- is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, ...