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pie-eyed

1. Staring in awe, disbelief, or amazement with one's eyes wide open. We sat pie-eyed on the curb watching our home burn to the ground. Everyone was pie-eyed as the celebrity strolled into our store.

2. slang Extremely drunk, especially to such a degree as to have lost control of one's faculties. He just sat at the bar for the whole night getting pie-eyed. Working in a 24-hour fast food restaurant in the middle of the city, you get pretty used to pie-eyed idiots coming in at all hours of the evening looking for junk food.

pie-eyed

1. mod. wide-eyed with amazement. He didn’t cry out. He just stood there pie-eyed.

2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. We’ve got a pie-eyed bus driver. I want to get off!

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PIE EYED Scotch Oven Bakery HERE for ever in Callander, Perthshire, but recently taken on by the irrepressible Lewis family of Monachyle Mhor so presumably those rolls, cakes, the biggest, possibly the best, tattie scones and sublime doughnuts all will be thrust into the 21st century; your picnic on the Braes will be better for it.

PATRIOT GAMES Wallace Monument; CHIME TIME NEW BELL; SPICE WORK Dakhin; FARE PLAY Milton Haugh Farm Shop; RAVE GRAVE Balquhidder Churchyard; OLD NAPOLI Bella Mbriana; CREAM OF THE CROP Cream O'Galloway; GRAND DESIGN Dakota Hotels; PIE EYED Scotch Oven Bakery; BLOOMING GREAT Raemoir Garden Centre

10 BEST OF SCOTLAND THE BEST; From pie shops to pasta restaurants and ice cream parlours, the nation's favourite travel guide author invites you to indulge in his most-loved places

John McCririck, got creamed by Scots racing fan Jock Mackay at Newmarket in 1997.NO YOLK: John Major is hit by an egg in the 1992 election campaignICE SURPRISE: Water is thrown at John Prescott at the Brit AwardsHE'S OFF: Racing commentator John McCririck is covered in sour creamEMULSION-AL: Students drench Brian Mawhinny with paint at the CommonsKOHL DISCOMFORT: German Chancellor Helmut hit at book signingCAKE THAT: Nick Brown gets eclair in the face at a farmers' conferenceBATTERED: Protesters cover Michael Heseltine in flour and eggs in 1982 PIE EYED: Microsoft boss Bill Gates cops a face full of apple tart in 1999

SPLAT'S ENTERTAINMENT

SMASHED: Verne crashes his scooter into the Diary Room, lands on the floor and refuses Coolio's help CHANNEL 4/RUCKAS VIDEOGRABS; PIE EYED: Verne after the champers

BEEN DRINKING SHORTS, VERNE? OH BROTHER, 2ft 8in STAR HITS THE BOTTLE Half-cut housemate crashes his scooter

Mr Booth, a builder, had a 50lb, three-tier ``growler" as his wedding cake when he married Joanne, 39, last month pie eyed:Kevin Booth inspects the goods

Growlers tested and tasted, too!

REVENGE ON THE MENU: Aberdeen manager Jimmy Calderwood is determined to come out on top against his former protege; PIE EYED: Boss Craig Brewster

Football: YOU ATE ALL THE PIES; Jimmy on revenge mission after Craig scoffed his grub