Refers to a person's eyes which are in a wide open state, such as from being suddenly startled, or such as when the natural human reaction to suddenly perceived danger occurs. It can also, and often is, used to refer to a person's eyes which are simply naturally large or naturally pop out, although officially it is meant to denote the difference between the way a person's eyes normally look and the (much larger) way they look when the person is in a shocked or startled state, regardless of how the person's eyes would be described in their natural state.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)