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saucer-eyed en · ADJ
Meanings
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Having round, wide-open eyes, naturally or from an expression of fear, astonishment, etc.
Barlow[…] had just spent the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Having seen waves of saucer-eyed youth wash up in the Haight, and gotten fairly dilated himself, he believed that civilization was “headed over the falls.”
2018 June 14, Chris Jennings, “‘Mother American Night’ Review: The Opening of a Western Mind”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers.
2009, Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons, Scholastic, published 2010, →ISBN, page 36:
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Relateds
saucer eyes
Synonyms
wide-eyed · owly-eyed · moon-eyed