Popeyed

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.

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