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popeyed

popeyed adjective: having bulging eyes.

Adjective

popeyed (comparative more popeyed, superlative most popeyed)

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

Forms of popeyed

comparativemore popeyed
superlativemost popeyed
alternative formpop-eyed

Origin of popeyed

From pop + eyed.

Questions about popeyed

What does popeyed mean?
Popeyed means having bulging eyes.
What part of speech is popeyed?
Popeyed is an adjective.

Words near popeyed in the dictionary

  1. popess
  2. popesses
  3. popeye
  4. popeye blacksmelt
  5. popeye blacksmelts
  6. popeyed
  7. popeyes
  8. Popești
  9. popfur
  10. popfurs
  11. popgun

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