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Pie-eyed means very drunk — so drunk the eyes look wide and a bit silly. It is informal, , and a little old; a or a comic story might say it more readily than a teenager. People also say wasted, , smashed, or, in British English, pissed (rude). Pie-eyed is gentler and almost cartoon-like. It is not about pies you eat, and it is not about a horse. Though actually the picture inside the word is a stretch: the idea is that the person’s eyes are open so wide they are as big as pies. That is a joke in the word, not a true fact about eyes. You will meet it more in stories than in young people’s chat.
From the word’s history
From pie + eyed, a hyperbole: eyes open as wide as pies.
pie「派」加 eyed，誇張地說眼睛睜得像派一樣大。
組成pie (the baked dish with a crust and a filling) + eyed. A stretched picture: eyes as big as pies.
同家族的字
- piethe baked food with a crust; the joke is eyes as wide as pies
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pie-eyedadj/ˈpaɪˌaɪd/
- 1
informalWith 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.
- Of all the blockheads in the world, I have the finest collection working for me. Terence Tadpole is a dolt, Sidney Squirrel is a sentimental idiot, Freddie Fox is a pie-eyed fool, Felix Frog is a perfect imbecile.
- 2
informal(Extremely) drunk or intoxicated.
- "He's just pie-eyed," said Dart quietly. "God knows how much straight alcohol he's had. Better come over here, Andy."
- I sat there, getting more and more pie-eyed, without anyone noticing, as far as I could judge, since the sole manifestation of my drunkenness was that my tongue was looser than usual.
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