pye-eyed

Updated: May 14, 2025

The playwright had never objected, nor had the jovial illustrator who occupied the front apartment, but he, as he admitted, "was usually pye-eyed, when he wasn't in Buffalo." He went home to Buffalo sometimes to rest his nerves. It had never occurred to Hedger that any one would mind using the tub after Caesar; but then, he had never seen a beautiful girl caparisoned for the bath before.

Willa Sibert Cather - Youth and the Bright Medusa