popeyed
Americanadjective
adjective
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having bulging prominent eyes
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staring in astonishment; amazed
Etymology
Origin of popeyed
Example Sentences
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My popeyed thoughts throughout “Also a Poet” were mainly: How can Schjeldahl not be suing Calhoun for defamation?
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
Within a few years, the anxious, frizzy-haired, popeyed Mr. Wilder had become an unlikely movie star.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2016
The deceased's fussy, self-centered, popeyed widow is a Loretta Devine part; Loretta Devine nails it with the laid-back brio of Thelma Ritter playing her 385th wisecracking best friend.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2010
Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked like a popeyed bird who had just swallowed something large and sticky and triangular.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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