Note 639 — THE BLACK BOOK.
Reading edition
wapper-eyed] “Wapper-eyed, sore-eyed.” Grose’s Class. Dict. of Vulg. Tongue.—“Wapper-eyed, goggle-eyed, having full rolling eyes; or looking like one scared; or squinting like a person overtaken with liquor.” Vocab. to An Exmoor Scolding, ed. 1839.