Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having pop-eyes.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of popeyed.

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Examples

  • Most impressive of these architectural pieces is a carved and painted lintel representing a pair of intertwined winged lions, pop-eyed and red-skinned, savaging a deer and bearing aloft the royal Dutch crown.

    Island Art, and All That Comes With It David Littlejohn 2011

  • I read The Dispossesed when I was in my teens, and of course, at that age, it's going to fill you with idealism and pop-eyed at the possibilities of other political systems and ways of living.

    MIND MELD: The Best Women Writers in SF/F 2009

  • Most impressive of these architectural pieces is a carved and painted lintel representing a pair of intertwined winged lions, pop-eyed and red-skinned, savaging a deer and bearing aloft the royal Dutch crown.

    Island Art, and All That Comes With It David Littlejohn 2011

  • I shot a wild glance at the others: Cambridge pop-eyed, Granville smiling but puzzled, Stewart alert and wondering, and only Joe having the grace to frown and chew his lip.

    Watershed 2010

  • In fact, she continued to draw men like flies to a jam-pot, and while in thirty years I'd never absolutely caught her in flagrante, there were a dozen at least I suspected her of slapping the mattress with, including that pop-eyed lecher Cardigan and H.R.H. Bertie the Bounder.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Does the pop-eyed Daruma, founder of Zen, strike a chord?

    Drawn Toward Enlightenment Lee Lawrence 2010

  • However, you might join me in my pop-eyed stare on this latest one, "Nemo on Ice."

    January 7th, 2008 cobie 2008

  • And when your sovereign lady regards you pop-eyed over the tea-cups with a bland "I expect, dear Sir Harry, that you will be accompanying Sir Garnet to Egypt," you can hardly remind her that you're past sixty and disinclined, especially when the idiot you married in an evil hour is assuring Her Majesty that you're champing at the bit.

    Watershed 2010

  • Each time it regarded Kellen's outstretched hand in pop-eyed horror and retreated out of reach, either around the trunk or out along a limb.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • I duly admired it before we went to dinner in an ante-room; it was a small party at table, Flashy in full Lancer fig with V.C. and assorted tinware, two young aides pop-eyed with worship, and Grey himself.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

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