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big-eyed en · ADJ

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1. Having large eyes.
   • “You know what? Fine. I’m going to give them the cutest, furriest, biggest-eyed, and babiest-faced mammal on the planet, and then I’m going to make it chomp venomous desert vipers to death. How about that?” “Yeah, they’re still going to think it’s cute.” 2014, Mara Grunbaum, “Sand Cat”, in WTF, Evolution?! A Theory of Unintelligible Design, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Dark Times), page 94:
   • His obsessive motif is a gnomish little figure — derived from Picasso out of Etruscan and more archaic art — of a man whose big-eyed, helmet-shaped head rides his legs without benefit of torso. 1984 October 26, Grace Glueck, “Art: Antes ‘Votives’ at Guggenheim”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
   • It doesn’t matter to the little children if there aren’t as many baby farm animals as there were last year. They turn their attention to the few, more big-eyed than calves and just as playful as twin lambs. 1943 April 4, Betty Fible Martin, “They’re All Behind the Plow […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • The long-tailed, orange-furred, big-eyed olinguito — said to resemble a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear — is the newest mammal and the first carnivore discovered in the Americas in 35 years, the Smithsonian Institution announced Thursday. 2013 August 15, Reuters, “A Mammal Long Overlooked, but Now Embraced”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2013:
   • The animation, with big-eyed character designs from the illustrator Mona Chalabi, at times literalizes Rumi’s anxiety and at others allows the story to take absurd detours. 2025 April 15, Esther Zuckerman, “‘#1 Happy Family USA’ Is a Bittersweet Coming-of-Age Sitcom”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2025:

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