walleyed

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Pattinson's Dalí starts out as a walleyed, puffy-shirted Simple Jack type before morphing into the twirly - mustachioed culture-hero Dalí of dorm-room-poster fame.

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  1. adjective Affected with exotropia.
  2. adjective Having large bulging eyes, as some fish.
  3. adjective Having eyes wide-open and glaring, as in anger.
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  • But Gooch, like all the rest of today's respondents, is wary of Iowa City developing a "cult of personality" (Hugh Ferrer), tying down the writers in our mist (Terri Larson) or doing anything that would leave the city "gaping in walleyed appreciation of writers" (Vernon Trollinger). —  Iowa City Press-Citizen - Local News
  • Pattinson's Dalí starts out as a walleyed, puffy-shirted Simple Jack type before morphing into the twirly - mustachioed culture-hero Dalí of dorm-room-poster fame. —  -Towleroad News- [#gay]
  • Though you wouldn't know it from the perennial hysteria about games turning kids into walleyed, anti-social zombies, videogames were originally a social pursuit, because the best games were available only in arcades, and those places were as convivial as Irish pubs. —  Frag With a Friend for Ultimate Fun
  • He then dispatches a couple of walleyed Malibu surfers to beat the shit out of the warring parties. —  Gawker: Defamer
  • Oh yeah, after her walleyed "performance" on SNL this weekend you just know I was first in line for her ablum. —  Bossip.com
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  1. Middle English wawileyed, from Old Norse vagl-eygr : vagl, film over the eye; see wegh- in Indo-European roots + auga, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.
 

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