"owly-eyed" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-owly-eyed.ogg [Australia] Forms: more owly-eyed [comparative], most owly-eyed [superlative]
Etymology: owly + eyed Etymology templates: {{compound|en|owly|eyed}} owly + eyed Head templates: {{en-adj}} owly-eyed (comparative more owly-eyed, superlative most owly-eyed)
  1. Seeing better in darkness than light; day-blind or photosensitive.
    Sense id: en-owly-eyed-en-adj-ulWpajJ5
  2. Wide-eyed, naturally or from an expression of fear, shock, surprise, or excitement. Categories (topical): Eye Synonyms (wide-eyed): moon-eyed, saucer-eyed, wide-eyed
    Sense id: en-owly-eyed-en-adj-rEUYfuTS Disambiguation of Eye: 7 86 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 49 28 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 13 57 31 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 66 19 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 19 56 25 Disambiguation of 'wide-eyed': 3 97 1
  3. (slang) Extremely drunk. Tags: slang Synonyms (extremely drunk): paralytic
    Sense id: en-owly-eyed-en-adj-Put3lohL Disambiguation of 'extremely drunk': 2 5 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wasted, drunk, owly eied [obsolete]

Alternative forms

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