Adjective : a young boy popeyed with excitement. From Dictionary.com.
"It is the scorpion," hissed the popeyed little man. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
I snatched my hands away, looking popeyed out the window. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Hillary was popeyed for the longest time and now McCain is popeyed. From Wordnik.com. [McCain will again question Obama's judgment] Reference
The popeyed fellow they had nicknamed Joe Cairo was beside him, supporting his arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
A native, popeyed with terror, had dropped to his knees in front of the weird - looking "spaceman.". From Wordnik.com. [Golden State] Reference
Has anyone noticed that CNN editors deliberately pick photos that make Obama's opponents look popeyed?. From Wordnik.com. [McCain will again question Obama's judgment] Reference
By then, the hall outside his door was full of staring, chattering people, among them a popeyed Horace Porter. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
He fell back sitting on the bed, pulling the popeyed bravo toward him so that his good knee pressed into the Sordello's chest. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
In any case, I have heard him preach several time and can testify, brothers and sisters, that Jimmy can still leave 'em popeyed. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Krotz: Jim Bakker and the Counterfeit Hell Robbers] Reference
Greed and recklessness had turned him into a breathless popeyed man who couldn't laugh without gasping for air and pleading for more time. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
The second man reached for the money but, under the popeyed gaze of the dealer, the fifth man laid down another straight -- this one ten-high. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
The second man reached for the money but, under the popeyed gaze of the dealer, the fifth man laid down another straight -- this one ten high. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Twister] Reference
Goodie also believes that African-Americans need "to keep their pants on," or as he tells his popeyed pop: "We have too many children having children.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shows Must Go On] Reference
The three immigration officers were in particularly high spirits, and it was one of these -- the popeyed fellow whose name, it transpired, was Stein -- who had. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
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?. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. ['Witch': Toil And Trouble] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Living With Music: Bill Cotter - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
After Sisodia returned him to her care, it became plain that Gibreel had been shaken to the very marrow, and there was a haunted look to him, a scarified popeyed quality, that quite pierced her heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Leewarden — a forty-year-old, bald, popeyed version of Bertie Wooster — ate very little of the excellent lunch served by the motherly Belgian housekeeper, but applied himself diligently to the wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
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. From Wordnik.com. ['Waterworld': It Floats] Reference
As I wrote about him in 2001, the star of Animal Planet's Crocodile Hunter--killed in a freakish mishap with a stingray--was essentially a kids' performer, "narrating his show breathlessly and popeyed as if reading a scary story to a three-year-old.". From Wordnik.com. [Steve Irwin’s Final Hunt - Tuned In - TIME.com] Reference
The two reporters entered and listened popeyed to the story. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight] Reference
The greenjacket who opened the door for me was looking popeyed in another direction as he pulled it open. From Wordnik.com. [Too Many Cooks]
What's not to love about pigtailed Alpine maidens with powerful forearms popeyed from lugging liters of Pilsner, short twirling skirts, and breasts wedged into a corset?. From Wordnik.com. [sweet juniper!] Reference
The deceased's fussy, self-centered, popeyed widow is a Loretta Devine part; Loretta Devine nails it with the laid-back brio of Thelma Ritter playing her 385th wisecracking best friend. From Wordnik.com. [ Politics] Reference
"The military attaches are still a little bit popeyed tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Cake Eater Chronicles] Reference
The dealer stared at her popeyed. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
"So you are," said the popeyed officer. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Looking popeyed. From Wordnik.com. [A loving look back at Heritage ERB Martian figures « Third Point of Singularity] Reference
(9) 18Type that sits, looking popeyed around the garden. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
He was, to look at, a phlegmatic type of man -- short, stout, wrinkled about the eyes, rather protuberant as to stomach, red-necked, red-faced, the least bit popeyed, but shrewd, kindly, good-natured, and witty. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier, a novel] Reference
He was, to look at, a phlegmatic type of man — short, stout, wrinkled about the eyes, rather protuberant as to stomach, red-necked, red-faced, the least bit popeyed, but shrewd, kindly, good-natured, and witty. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
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