popeyed
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of popeyed
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
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adj
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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.”
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(broadly)astonished
“Files of women passed balancing vegetable baskets on their heads, and pop-eyed children who stared at the Europeans.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From pop + eyed.
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