Sunglasses - Other Names For Sunglasses

Other Names For Sunglasses

There are various words referring to eyepieces with darkened lenses:

  • Shades is probably the most widely used term for sunglasses in North America.
  • Glares is a term popular in India if the glass is dark.
  • Glints is a term for glasses originating from the "glint" that is noticeable when somebody wearing glasses moves their head.
  • Sun spectacles is a term used by some opticians.
  • Spekkies is a term used predominantly in southern Australia.
  • Sun specs (also sunspecs) is the shortened form of sun spectacles.
  • Sunglass a monocle version.
  • Sun-shades can also refer to the sun-shading eyepiece-type, although the term is not exclusive to these. Also in use is the derivative abbreviation, shades.
  • Dark glasses (also preceded by pair of) — generic term in common usage.
  • Sunnies is Australian, South African, UK and New Zealand slang
  • Smoked spectacles usually refers to the darkened eyepieces worn by blind people.
  • Solar shields Usually refers to models of sunglasses with large lenses.
  • Stunna shades Used as a slang term in the hyphy movement, usually referring to sunglasses with oversized lenses.
  • Glecks is Scottish slang for glasses or sunglasses.
  • Cooling glasses is a term used in Southern India (predominantly Kerala) and the Middle East for sunglasses.

Read more about this topic:  Sunglasses

Famous quotes containing the words names and/or sunglasses:

    “If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will—the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    “You could see his sunglasses scanning those faces as they passed, and he must have decided that Rikki’s was the one he was waiting for, the wild card and the luck changer. The new one.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)