popeyed

comparative more popeyed · superlative most popeyed · alternative pop-eyed

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. broadlyastonished

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

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