pie-eyed

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pie-eyed

/ˈpaɪˌaɪd/ UK
/ˌpaɪˈaɪd/ UK
/ˈpaɪˌaɪd/ US

Rhymes with -aɪaɪd, -aɪd

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From pie (“type of pastry consisting of an outer crust and a filling”) + eyed, a hyperbole suggesting that a person’s eyes are open so wide that they are as large as pies.

adjective more pie-eyed · most pie-eyed

informal With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed. [H]ere I've been roosting all day long, with nothing to do but gaze at this bunch of would-be scribes grinding out jazz copy, and now, at half-past four, that pie-eyed zebra of a Sunday editor has to hand me an assignment about as concrete as a hunk of Hudson River mist; and I've got a date with Vit
Similar: moon-eyed, owly-eyed, saucer-eyed
broadly, informal (Extremely) drunk or intoxicated. "He's just pie-eyed," said Dart quietly. "God knows how much straight alcohol he's had. Better come over here, Andy."
Similar: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten

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adj with one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner

Español	los ojos como platos, ojiplático
中文	睜大眼睛的 /睁大眼睛的 zhēngdàyǎnjīngde

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@misc{pie_eyed_2026,
  title = {pie-eyed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pie-eyed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}