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popeyed

[ pop-ahyd ]

adjective

  1. marked by bulging, staring eyes:

    a young boy popeyed with excitement.



popeyed

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adjective

  1. having bulging prominent eyes
  2. staring in astonishment; amazed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of popeyed1

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25; pop 1 + eyed
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This is true Americanism — not the noxious nativism and malignant nationalism touted by popeyed populists.

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In a British film called “My Bare Lady,†Weegee played the part of a nude popeyed judge in a nudist beauty contest.

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Within a few years, the anxious, frizzy-haired, popeyed Mr. Wilder had become an unlikely movie star.

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There's an oddly grotesque style to some of the character design, including the popeyed sloths, as well as the high jinks of the single-minded and physically elastic squirrel Scrat.

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He’s an outrageous racial caricature: round-faced, popeyed, thick-lipped, a cartoon.

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