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单词 popeyed
释义

popeyed

See also: pop-eyed and pop eyed

English

Alternative forms

  • pop-eyed

Etymology

pop + eyed

Adjective

popeyed (comparative more popeyed, superlative most popeyed)

  1. 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.
  2. (by extension) astonished
    • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 11”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:
      Files of women passed balancing vegetable baskets on their heads, and pop-eyed children who stared at the Europeans.
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