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(informal, originally US) With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed. / (informal, by extension) (Extremely) drunk or intoxicated.

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pie-eyed

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Source Word

pie-eyed

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpaɪˌaɪd/

Adjective

informal broadly

Japanese Meaning

目を大きく開いて無表情に見つめる様子 / （俗語で）非常に酔っている状態

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He sat pie-eyed on the windowsill, watching the rain with a blank expression.

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彼は窓辺に座り、目を大きく見開いて無表情のまま雨を眺めていた。

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(informal, originally US) With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed.

[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.

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