Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To stare with wide and bulging eyes.
- intransitive verb To roll or bulge. Used of the eyes.
- intransitive verb To roll or bulge (the eyes).
- noun A stare or leer.
- noun A pair of tight-fitting eyeglasses, often tinted or having side shields, worn to protect the eyes from hazards such as wind, glare, water, or flying debris.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strain or roll the eyes in a squinting, blinking, or staring way; roll about staringly, as the eyes.
- To roll or shake about loosely.
- To roll (the eyes) about blinkingly and staringly.
- To swallow; gobble.
- noun A strained, blinking, or squinting rolling of the eye.
- noun plural An instrument worn like spectacles, with plain or colored glasses fixed in short tubes spreading at the base over the eyes, for their protection from cold, dust, sparks, etc., or from too great intensity of light, or so contrived as to direct the eyes straight forward, in order to cure squinting.
- noun Spectacles.
- noun Blinds for horses that are apt to take fright.
- noun plural A parasitic disease of sheep, caused by the presence of a bladder-worm in the brain which causes dizziness, staggering gait, walking in a circle, spasms, and convulsions. Also called staggers, gid, and turnsick.
- noun The garden gooseberry, Ribes Grossularia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To roll the eyes; to stare.
- adjective Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.
- noun A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
- noun A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
- noun Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
- noun A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
- noun Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
stare (at something) withwide eyes - verb to
roll the eyes - noun a wide-eyed stare
- noun in the plural a
pair ofprotective eyeglasses
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb look with amazement; look stupidly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hi, i can't access your webpages. the links there and its the first search result in goggle but it keep crash out and saying that the webpage is unavailable. regards
Diamonds Down Under (Edited) Nalini Singh 2008
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His complexion was yellow; his greenish-brown eyes were of the sort called "goggle" -- they looked as if they might drop out of his face, if you held a spoon under them.
Little Novels Wilkie Collins 1856
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June 11th, 2006 at 3: 05 pm freeman says: journalists phone records according to that ultra leftist news outfit ABC are being confiscated with natnal security letters diebold has eliminated hanging chads and a cabal of oil execs are waging a wart of liberation in the middle east, goggle is the only search engine who hasnt surrendered the internet records of millions of americans and Q west the only phone company who is refusing to allow its customers to be bugged and as near as I can tell we are here discussing the ideas of an idiot hate mongering fascist who spews hate just to play on the emotionalism of the least educated least affluent among the population
Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows 2006
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 Boyfriend is again goggle-eyed to see what’s reallyÂgoing on with his lady, and they end up on a planet where Astra is a revered mythological figure, the girl who saved the universe.
Review: Rapid Fire Reviews - Stale Candy Edition! | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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In this respect the Esquimau snow goggle, which is simply a piece of wood hollowed out into a cup and illuminated by narrow slits, has advantage over any shape or kind of glass protection.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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Mr. Nag saw this guy at MACBA today and asked me to google him (only he says "goggle" just to annoy me).
Archive 2008-04-01 The Nag 2008
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I'm not some kind of goggle-eyed advocate for Campbell here who sees his work in everything.
WoW-nnui 2006
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Eyes -- Wide apart, large, round, dark and soft and not "goggle" eyed.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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Wherever they played, crowds turned up to goggle at the Japanese children playing perfectly in unison.
The Suzuki Method He Imported Keyed a Music Revolution Stephen Miller 2011
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Richard Kay, like Nigel Dempster before him, is paid to write a diary about moneyed toffs like David and Sam so that humbler tube-travelling folk can goggle a bit and scowl at their youngers and betters.
Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs Peter Preston 2010
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