popeyed
English
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Adjective
popeyed (comparative more popeyed, superlative most popeyed)
- having bulging eyes
- 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson, Sharpe, Chapter 4, p. 88,
- From behind large and sinister-looking frames her popeyed gaze—it could be from hyperthyroidism—swept over us.
- 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson, Sharpe, Chapter 4, p. 88,
- (by extension) astonished
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 11”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
- Files of women passed balancing vegetable baskets on their heads, and pop-eyed children who stared at the Europeans.
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