red-eyed

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

1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see red,‎ eyed.
2. 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, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:

     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.

• red-eyed bream (Lepomis gulosus)
• red-eyed coqui (Eleutherodactylus antillensis)
• red-eyed dove (Streptopelia semitorquata)
• red-eyed frog
• red-eyed pochard (Aythya ferina)
• red-eyed puffback (Dryoscopus senegalensis)
• red-eyed stream frog (Duellmanohyla uranochroa)
• red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas, Litoria chloris)
• red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus)

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