popeyed

See also: pop-eyed and pop eyed

English

Alternative forms

• pop-eyed

Etymology

pop +‎ eyed

Adjective

popeyed (comparative more popeyed, superlative most popeyed)

1. having bulging eyes
   • 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.

2. (by extension) astonished
   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 11”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

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