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Pie-eyed

//ˈpaɪˌaɪd// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed. informal

    "[H]ere I've been roosting all day long, with nothing to do but gaze at this bunch of would-be scribes grinding out jazz copy, and now, at half-past four, that pie-eyed zebra of a Sunday editor has to hand me an assignment about as concrete as a hunk of Hudson River mist; and I've got a date with Vita for supper at six."

  2. 2
    (Extremely) drunk or intoxicated. broadly, informal

    ""He's just pie-eyed," said Dart quietly. "God knows how much straight alcohol he's had. Better come over here, Andy.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    very drunk wordnet

Etymology

From pie (“type of pastry consisting of an outer crust and a filling”) + eyed, a hyperbole suggesting that a person’s eyes are open so wide that they are as large as pies.

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