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1. (childish)Eyes.
   • 1902,Marshall Saunders, “A Lodge by the Sea”, inBeautiful Joe’s Paradise or The Island of Brotherly Love, Boston, Mass.:L[ouis] C[oues] Page and Company,page115:

     “Go to sleep, my darling, / Go to sleep, my pet, / Close your littleeyesies, / All your cares forget.”

   • 1923, [Homer Croy], chapter XXI, inWest of the Water Tower, New York, N.Y., London:Harper & Brothers,page324:

     “Hide your littleeyesies.” He felt the pressure of her hand and she led him into the room. The clammy touch was gone. “Now you can look around.”

   • 1941 October 24, R. A. Lofstrom, “Right and Left in Sports”, inThe St. Cloud Daily Times, eightieth year, number113, St. Cloud, Minn., section “Along the Sports Trail”,page nine, column 1:

     We saw them with our own littleeyesies yesterday but didn’t ever expect we’d see the day when a major college stadium offered such rare ducats for public purchase.

   • 1982,Slavic and East European Arts, page135:

     Hiseyesies are going to be hazel

   • 1984,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, translated byLanford Wilson,Three Sisters, Smith and Kraus,→ISBN,page45:

     And he looked up at me with thoseeyesies of his.

   • 1995,Plautus, “Casina”, in Robert Wind, transl.,Three Comedies, Lanham, Md., New York, N.Y., London:University Press of America,→ISBN,page173:

     “Oh Olympio, my little teddy bear, darling, honey baby, sweetie pie, let me kiss youreyesies, lovey dovey bunny buns, let me make you happy PLEEEASE!”

   • 2011,Miljenko Jergović, chapter IV, in Stephen M. Dickey, transl.,Ruta Tannenbaum, Evanston, Ill.:Northwestern University Press,→ISBN, page25:

     Who’s my little mouse? Whose little nosy is this? Who has the biggesteyesies in Agramstadt?

2. The act offlirtation using the eyes.
   • 1957, “The Great Cross-Country Girl Hunt”, inGlamour Photography, section “How to Make the Kill”,page 7, column 2:

     But when he looked her way she was taking a break and the guy she was playingeyesies with was the bull[-]necked bouncer.

   • 1960, Marc Spinelli,Beauty and the Beast,Prentice-Hall, Inc., page144:

     Don’t playeyesies with him, causing him to upset the coffee. Be demure and turn away your eyes, it says here.

   • 1979 October,Frederick Exley, “‘A Fan’s Notes’ Goes to Super Bowl XIII”, inInside Sports,page129, column 2:

     At length, I settled down at the end of a check-in counter, ordered a vodka-soda, and began playingeyesies with a barmaid on the other side of the counter.[…] Having convinced myself she was really a hooker willing to playeyesies with any guy with enough scratch, I pray she grabbed some Texas entrepreneur or NFL executive for five big ones.

   • 1984, Eric Weber,How to Win the Woman of Your Dreams: A Man’s Guide to Romance, Symphony Press,→ISBN, page47:

     Have you ever found yourself playing “eyesies” with a girl on a bus or at a singles bar and thought,No, it can’t be. My fly must be open. She’s looking at someone in back of me. I remind her of her Uncle Harry. Wrong.

   • 1988,Denny McLain, Mike Nahrstedt, “The Trial”, inStrikeout: The Story of Denny McLain, St. Louis, Mo.: The Sporting News Publishing Co.,→ISBN,page185:

     They didn’t miss a trick and even played games with the jurors. They would smile at them, nod to them and playeyesies with them, saying, “Hi, how are you doing today?”

   • 1994,Mark Medoff,Stefanie Hero,Dramatists Play Service,→ISBN,page24:

     See, I’m so stupid — playingeyesies with one human while another tries to kill me.

   • 2000, William Guy,Gravity’s Revolt, part four,Xlibris,→ISBN, page58:

     […] we both in decent deference had to withdraw our darting glances and the game ofeyesies ended,[…]

   • 2012,Alix Kates Shulman,Ménage, New York, N.Y.:Other Press,→ISBN:

     But Zoltan, playingeyesies with the lovely Heather, was unaware that Mack’s talk of investments and speculations might in any way apply to him.

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