saucer-eyed

English

Adjective

saucer-eyed (comparative more saucer-eyed, superlative most saucer-eyed)

  1. Having round, wide-open eyes, naturally or from an expression of fear, astonishment, etc.
    Synonyms: moon-eyed, owly-eyed, wide-eyed
    • 2009, Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons, Scholastic, published 2010, →ISBN, page 36:
      The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers.
    • 2018 June 14, Chris Jennings, “‘Mother American Night’ Review: The Opening of a Western Mind”, in Wall Street Journal‎, →ISSN:
      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.”

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