pie-eyed
/ˈpaɪˌaɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.76 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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."
- "When the pie-eyed teens in the school hall, where I, decades before, had grasped the tendril with which I would swing out of Essex, like a tubby Tarzan, look to me full of X Factor ambition and Xbox distraction and tell me that they "want to be famous too," I wince, but I want to tell them they've been swindled. That they are being horribly misled by the dominant cultural narratives."
- ""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."
- "No, nothing happened. You were so pie-eyed drunk you were incapable of doing anything whatsoever."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpaɪˌaɪd/
- British English: /ˈpaɪˌaɪd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more pie-eyed (comparative)
most pie-eyed (superlative)