单词 | round-eyed |
释义 | > as lemmasround-eyed round-eyed adj. having round eyes; spec. wide-eyed with astonishment or incomprehension. ΚΠ 1553 T. Paynell tr. Dares Faythfull & True Storye Destr. Troye 19 Neoptolemus great, couragious, dispitefull, stammerynge, of a croked visage, rounde eyed, proude. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiv. f. 176v That hellish wyght The round eyed gyant Polypheme. 1824 London Mag. May 471/2 How many round-eyed spectators, think you, would Evadne or Mirandola bring now to a theatre? 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 232 Rob the round-eyed..looked on and listened. 1993 Times 20 Oct. 19/5 The reply, ‘No, but I don't eat factory-farmed animals’, gets me the round-eyed stare and the dropped jaw. 2000 J. Callahan Lest we Forget v. 64 Three of the depicted subjects are almond-eyed, three are ray-eyed, and the men on the ship are round-eyed. < as lemmas |
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