English

Adjective

red-eyed ‎(comparative more red-eyed, superlative most red-eyed)

1. Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.

   They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.‎

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:

     She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

References

• J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner (prepared by), The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (Claredon Press, Oxford 1991 [1989], ISBN 0-19-861258-3), page 1535/414