gapey

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Informal

"This is the important bit: you now have clear pores, but they’re irritated and all big and gapey."
"Jenny stared at her, wide-eyed and with her mouth a bit gapey."
"I’m struggling to pinpoint the problem with these boxers. Too small? They are a bit gapey. They don’t look like they’re his own, which is a bad start."

From gape + -y.

gapier (comparative) gapiest (superlative) gapy (alternative)

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