A vivid British expression for having bleary, watery, or crusty eyes — the kind you wake up with after a rough night or an ugly cry.
A vivid British expression for having bleary, watery, or crusty eyes — the kind you wake up with after a rough night or an ugly cry. The gravy comparison is genuinely evocative: thick, runny, and not exactly appetizing. Whether from sleep, illness, or a long night out, gravy-eyed suggests someone whose eyes are doing exactly what eyes shouldn't do in polite company.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A crude and frequently humorous British and American vulgar slang term for semen. The term combines 'baby' (evoking reproductive purpose) with 'gravy' (a thick, viscous liquid), creating a deliberately grotesque and comical image. Typical register is laddish humour, shock comedy, and informal male banter. Essentially a jokey euphemism — not used in serious or clinical contexts. The humour relies on the contrast between the mundane domesticity of 'gravy' and the sexual referent.
A vulgar slang term for semen, using the baby-making function plus the food metaphor gravy for comic effect. Belongs to a long tradition of crude food-metaphor nicknames for bodily fluids in English. Used in shock humor, crude comedy, and deliberately offensive speech. Not appropriate in polite or clinical settings. The name is designed to provoke and amuse simultaneously. The food metaphor is designed to provoke reactions — it works precisely because the combination of baby and gravy is both vivid and deliberately unsavory.
(slang, vulgar) Semen.
She shuffled into the kitchen looking gravy-eyed and asked if anyone had made coffee yet.
(UK) bleary-eyed.
(Ireland, slang) Very drunk.