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eyesore (n.)

c. 1300, "a soreness of the eyes" (obsolete); modern sense of "something offensive to the eye" is from 1520s; from eye (n.) + sore (n.). In the sense "eye disease" Old English had eagseoung.

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Definitions of eyesore from WordNet

eyesore (n.)
something very ugly and offensive;
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