Dictionary

pie-eyed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌpaɪˈaɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpaɪˌaɪd/ (General-American)
• /ˈpaɪˌaɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Received-Pronunciation) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (informal) With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed.
   • When the pie-eyed teens in the school hall, where I, decades before, had grasped the tendril with which I would swing out of Essex, like a tubby Tarzan, look to me full of X Factor ambition and Xbox distraction and tell me that they "want to be famous too," I wince, but I want to tell them they've been swindled. That they are being horribly misled by the dominant cultural narratives. 2014, Russell Brand, “Serenity Now”, in Revolution, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
   • [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 Vita for supper at six. 1921 February, R. A. Chath, “The Phantom Call”, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Radio News, volume 8, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, →OCLC, page 537:
   • Of all the blockheads in the world, I have the finest collection working for me. Terence Tadpole is a dolt, Sidney Squirrel is a sentimental idiot, Freddie Fox is a pie-eyed fool, Felix Frog is a perfect imbecile. 1923 September 15, “Pat”, “Railway Supply Man’s Bedtime Story: Broadcasted from Station RYREV, Chicago. No. 23.”, in Willard A. Smith et al., editors, Railway Review, volume 73, Chicago, Ill.: Railway Review, →OCLC, page 404, column 1:
2. (broadly, informal) (Extremely) drunk or intoxicated.
   • No, nothing happened. You were so pie-eyed drunk you were incapable of doing anything whatsoever. 2016, Marissa St. James, chapter 5, in Fool’s Gold (McKinley Jewels; 2), White Bear Lake, Minn.: Melange Books, →ISBN, page 48:
   • "He's just pie-eyed," said Dart quietly. "God knows how much straight alcohol he's had. Better come over here, Andy." 1950, Anya Seton [pseudonym; Anya Seton Chase], Foxfire, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin; republished Boston, Mass.: Mariner Books, 2015, →ISBN, page 246:
   • I sat there, getting more and more pie-eyed, without anyone noticing, as far as I could judge, since the sole manifestation of my drunkenness was that my tongue was looser than usual. 2015, Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett, Dancing in the Dark … Translated from the Norwegian (My Struggle; 4), London: Vintage, →ISBN, page 280:
   • It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. The seat is an extension of the sofa, the match another Pick of the Day in the Radio Times. Some are wearing Santa hats, some have been drinking only six or seven hours after last stopping, guzzling away, topping up their levels to reach pie-eyed delirium. 2016 December 18, Daniel Gray, “Boxing Day football: Game and Christmas collide to make us all excitable children”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2017; extracted from Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football, London: Bloomsbury, 2016, →ISBN:

Forms

Synonyms

three sheets in the wind · elevated · loose · aled up · twatfaced · tanked up · nimptopsical · wastey · Brahms and Liszt · how came you so · snookered · flushed · adrip · strut · bingoed · toping · crocked · four sheets in the wind · have drink taken · lushed · elephant's trunk · oiled up · snuffy · mabok · wrecked · potshot · fap · schnockered · stonkered · fuzzy-headed · insobrietous · off one's box · spongy · lathered · tipsy · worse for wear · tilted · obliviated · Oliver · have the sun in one's eyes · polluted · scammered · elephant's · budgy · steamboats · obfuscated · sprung · in liquor · fershnickered · blootered · sottish · souped-up · newted · in one's cups · well-oiled · burlin' · zorched · besotten · flush · skunked · impaired · stewed · stoated · gesuip · stinking · top-heavy · quisby · ploughed · munted · mad with it · looped · ebriated · out of sight · tight as a tick · monged · in one's altitudes · flooey · kisky · half seas over · gattered · high as a kite · out of it · fresh · wellied · muzzy · puggled · twisted · jarred · full · tight · sloppy drunk · hooched up · bevvied · juiced · MWI · three sheets to the wind · Oliver Twist · temulentive · larruped · bottled · mortal · inebriate · smashed · blind drunk · bladdered · gee-eyed · out of one's head · blue · slammed · jaked · muggy · mortalled · plastered · gished · paralytic · toasted · squiffed · sodden · bosky · top-heavy with drink · zonked · blocked · nappy · bibacious · drunken · blewed · feeling no pain · trashed · ratfaced · drunked up · sewed up · glorious · loaded · fuckered up · hazed · mullered · moon-eyed · oiled · sotted · overcome · fou · fluthered · fuzzy-minded · inebriated · splashed · lubed · half lit · wet · a sheet in the wind's eye · throwed · ebriose · withered · rolling · zoned · corned · rubbered · maudlin · sozzled · boozy · disguised · ossified · hooted · juiced up · befuddled · groggified · sauced up · langered · drunk as a piper · sozzly · high as a Georgia pine · insober · spannered · stotious · dead drunk · loopy · lamped · medicated · beliquored · clobbered · fluted · lash · bungfu · overrefreshed · floored · shellacked · fuckfaced · raddled · tippled · woozy · zotzed · out of one's box · faced · slizzard · wazzocked · Brahms · wobbly · ginned · snozzled · lubricated · snockered · bollocksed · saucer-eyed · shitty · shedded · screwed · half polluted · slarmied · lit · cocked · gassed · liquory · binned · out of one's face · lashed · inebrious · maggot · Adrian Quist · in the drink · bibulous · overtaken · honkers · pickled · frosted · sloshed · ripe · razzled · soaken · spiffed · fuddled · canned · blasted · destroyed · soused · cut · wazzed · stoned · worse for liquor · swacked · cockeyed · half cut · parlatic · sauced · arseholed · cup-shot · shicker · blind · all mops and brooms · primed · hammered · bedrunken · langers · tuned · groggy · plowed · mashed · lubed up · besotted · bungalowed · scuttered · soshed · in the bag · hoovered · pounded · whittled · kaylied · bombed · owly-eyed · schloshed · high · blitzed · shickered · on the ran tan · flustered · ripped · off one's tits · fried · pie-eyed · hog-whimpering · hosed · inter pocula · stinko · spanceled · crapulous · messed up · liquored up · drunk · zooted · kettled · cunted · tanked · pixilated · muddled · Mozart and Liszt · maggoted · blottoed · tired and emotional · legless · off one's head · temulent · potted · cup-shotten · a sheet in the wind

Translations (3)

cmn 睜大眼睛的 /睁大眼睛的 (with one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner) · es los ojos como platos (with one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner) · es ojiplático (with one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner)