眼巴巴

yǎnbābā
  1. waiting anxiously
  2. impatient

CEDICT

  1. (expecting) eager(ly); anxious(ly)
  2. eager(ly); anxious(ly)
  3. helpless(ly watching something unpleasant happen)

Wiktionary

  1. 迫切渴望的樣子。
  2. 形容面對事情的發生，卻無可奈何。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 眼 yǎn
  1. (often used with 一 yī) a look; a glance
  2. small hole
  3. (bound form) salient point
  4. classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc

classifiers: 隻, 雙
2 巴巴 bābā
  1. (suffix) very
  2. extremely

Related entries

眼穿腸斷 yǎnchuānchángduàn waiting anxiously (idiom)
不耐煩 bùnàifán
  1. impatient
  2. to lose patience
急吼吼 jíhǒuhǒu impatient
性急 xìngjí impatient
我觉得汤姆有些过于性急了。

I think Tom is a bit too impatient.

I think that Tom is a bit too impatient.

Source: Tatoeba

悁 juàn impatient
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