Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having bulging eyes.
- adj. Amazed; astonished: popeyed with wonder.
Wiktionary
- adj. having bulging eyes
- adj. by extension astonished
WordNet 3.0
- adj. with eyes or mouth open in surprise
- adj. having bulging eyes
Examples
“In the course of their journey they slay digital wolves and encounter popeyed, suppurating corpses that help the filmmakers avoid any accusation of light-heartedness.”
“Hillary was popeyed for the longest time and now McCain is popeyed.”
“Has anyone noticed that CNN editors deliberately pick photos that make Obama's opponents look popeyed?”
“In any case, I have heard him preach several time and can testify, brothers and sisters, that Jimmy can still leave 'em popeyed.”
The Huffington Post: Daniel Krotz: Jim Bakker and the Counterfeit Hell Robbers
“A native, popeyed with terror, had dropped to his knees in front of the weird - looking "spaceman.”
“On the way home Bud kept everyone chuckling with his jokes about York's popeyed reaction when”
“Why had I not seen that all Buddy's foolery, his flatulence, his stumbles, his bad memory, and his popeyed look of suffocation signified that he had only days left?”
“Greed and recklessness had turned him into a breathless popeyed man who couldn't laugh without gasping for air and pleading for more time.”
“I decided the song would be my anthem, and to consecrate the decision, I drew in a variety of Sharpie colors on a T-shirt two crossed Vox guitars surmounted with a popeyed skull.”
Living With Music: Bill Cotter - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
“Beyond taciturn, his Mariner is a moody, uncivilized, selfish s.o.b., who tosses kids in shark-infested waters, thwacks his leading lady with an oar and barters her body to a popeyed, cuckoo scavenger for a few pieces of paper.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘popeyed’.
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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•Open List: Ways to Get Your Hash Bro...
If you are not familiar with Waffle House, you are still welcome to contribute, but I hope you will sit back and get the gist first.
The Waffle House menu:
HASHBROWNS
all the way, topped, capped, peppered, diced, chunked, covered, smothered, scattered, insulted, smacked, belted and 165 more...
Tweets
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sionnach with spinach (aka florentined) Sep 22, 2009