Meaning
Cross-eyed — having eyes that turn inward or don't align, from 'crass' (cross) plus 'yeye' (eye). A plain description of a squint, sometimes used teasingly. 'Yeye' is the Patois for eye, and appears in many expressions (cut-yeye, bad-yeye, long-yeye).
Examples
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Di crass-yeye man still see good.
The cross-eyed man still sees well.
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She born crass-yeye but dem fix it.
She was born cross-eyed but they corrected it.
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Nuh tease him cause him crass-yeye.
Don't tease him because he's cross-eyed.
Origin
From 'cross' (crass) + 'yeye' (eye); cross-eyed. See [[cut-eye]], [[bad-eye]].
How it’s used
Cross-eyed; 'yeye' = eye. See [[cut-eye]], [[bad-eye]], [[long-eye]].