English Explanatory Dictionary

pie-eyed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed.
  2. (Extremely) drunk or intoxicated.

Pronunciation

/ˈpaɪˌaɪd/ /ˌpaɪˈaɪd/ En-uk-pie-eyed.oga

Word forms

pie-eyed more pie-eyed most pie-eyed

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.

Synonyms

moon-eyed owly-eyed saucer-eyed 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 bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked blootered blottoed blue bollocksed bombed boozy bosky bottled Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungalowed bungfu burlin' canned clobbered corned cocked cockeyed crapulous crocked cunted cup-shot cup-shotten cut dead drunk destroyed disguised drunk drunk as a piper drunked up drunken ebriated
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