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Popeyed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    astonished broadly

    "Files of women passed balancing vegetable baskets on their heads, and pop-eyed children who stared at the Europeans."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having bulging eyes wordnet
  2. 2
    with eyes or mouth open in surprise wordnet

Etymology

From pop + eyed.

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