What is "bug-eyed"

Usage examples of "bug-eyed".

He stood at the blackboard with a piece of chalk in his hand, a little bug-eyed man of forty-five with a big bulb of head growing out on the stem of his thin neck like an overripe spring onion, to give his talk on the fourth dimension.

He was dying to look at Keely, dying to see her standing there, bug-eyed, her mouth hanging open.

His eyes were covered by snooper goggles, making him look like some bug-eyed improbability from another planet.

Friday evening I went down to the Slaw pub and exchanged bug-eyed looks with Soupy across the room.

Raimunda da Silva of Diamantina, Brazil has never heard of flying saucers, bug-eyed monsters, or Buck Rogers.

Saint beelined for the window she had just left, but before he could reach it a large boiled-pink woman with two bug-eyed children clinging to her skirts was there in front of him.

Manus stumbles out, power blue bug-eyed with his hands in the air, and I march him out to his car with the rifle pressed against his back.

Oddly, there was no menace in it, probably because it was anything but a bug-eyed monster.

You didn't have to steal a little girl and turn her over to a-a bug-eyed monster!

It was done in garish colors -- a bug-eyed monster chasing a scantily clad female.

Smith as he was called by his faithful readers, whose galactic sagas containing mile-long space ships, spectacular space battles between the galaxies, Bug-Eyed Monsters and heroes and villains literarily out of this world, has made its author the target of considerable criticism both from without and within sf circles.

On the scratched mahogany table beneath the window squats a crude peacock carved from cheap pine with an unsteady hand and, leaning against the burnt-out lamp, an unfinished paint-by-numbers canvas of a bug-eyed cow Mother bought at a Kmart in Mason, Kentucky, on her last and final visit to Cousin Dewey's.

Dua's head swung forward like the jaws of a steam shovel, until it hung only inches from Fredericks' own pale, bug-eyed features.

And these people aren't just mixed-up berks and babbling bagladies: they are haunted tinnitic taxmen, bug-eyed barristers and smart-bombed bureaucrats.

They were true bug-eyed monsters, and they were out to despoil the planet and leave it deprived of its resources, especially its magic.