Definition of "eyeful"

eyeful¹

noun
plural eyefuls or eyesful
1. A full or complete view; a good look.
2. (sometimes ironic) A remarkable sight or a very attractive person.
3. Enough material to fill one's eye.
4. (informal) A brief period of sleep; forty winks.
  Quotations
  We pulled our heavy overcoats tightly around us, shivering, and put our heads down as the din of fighting stopped for a while to grab an eyeful of sleep.
  2021, Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS: 1943–45, page 272

eyeful²

adjective
comparative more eyeful, superlative most eyeful
1. Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
  Quotations
  With this, he hung them up aloft, upon a tamrick bough, As eyeful trophies [...]
  2000, Homer, Iliad and the Odyssey