Popeyed vs Popeye - What's the difference?
popeyed | popeye |
A tough cartoon sailor, full name Popeye the Sailor, characterized by bulging forearm muscles, a squinty eye, and an affinity for spinach.
* 1967 , Television Magazine , Volume 24, Issue 11, page 27:
* 1991 , Anthony Bruno, Bad Luck , page 28:
*2009 , Kaye Morgan,
A nickname for a person who has attributes of the cartoon character.
*1994 , Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement , page 216:
*2006 , Alexander Fullerton, The Gatecrashers , page 60:
*2009 , ESPN, ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia , page 99:
As an adjective popeyed
is having bulging eyes.As a noun popeye is
(medicine) exophthalmia.popeye
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- They seem equipped to drag the building between them right down Pennsylvania Avenue, but their progress is arrested by two heroes of Popeye musculature, government men putting a check rein on willful industry.
- Lenny gave him the Popeye squint as he rolled off to Frank, the other bodyguard on duty, who was standing on the other side of the stage behind the Epps camp.
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- Roche's jaw tightened so much, little Popeye muscles appeared in his cheeks.
- The UPU faction, headed by Popeye Jackson, drew considerable numbers of members away from the Prisoners' Union when it split off in 1973, primarily taking with it the union's more radical convicts.
- "Arf, arfl" It was a Popeye expression, which he used to express pleasure or enthusiasm.
- FAN FAVORITE: ? Popeye' Jones (1988-92) Befitting his nickname, Ronald "' Popeye " Jones never came up short in the effort department.