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  • verb Present participle of goggle.

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Examples

  • He has remarkably bold eyes; rather approaching to what we would call goggling: and he gives himself airs with them as if he wished to have them thought rakish: perhaps as a recom-mendation, in his opinion, to the ladies.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • He has remarkably bold eyes, rather approaching to what we would call goggling, and he gives himself airs with them, as if he wished to have them thought rakish; perhaps as a recommendation, in his opinion, to the ladies.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Not all of the country feels Michael Jackson deserves all of this adulation, and it is interesting to me that people weren't this "goggling" during his life and trials.

    Pelosi: House won't take up Michael Jackson resolution 2009

  • She stared at me, goggling her eyes with exaggerated innocence.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Their ears were pointed, their beaks were hooked, and their obsidian eyes were large and flat, like pools, goggling at him in the rose twilight of full moons.

    The Soul of Yeats « Unknowing 2009

  • Inexplicably, two days ago, that demand was increased to an eye-goggling 5% of GDP (gross domestic product), estimated at $722 billion from the United States alone.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Copenhagen as Income Redistribution 2009

  • The smalls had a deliciously wonderful time, chasing Space Rangers and splashing down mountains and racing race cars and goggling at pixies zipping through the sky, and their joy was contagious but still: we were supposed to do all this – we were supposed to be pursuing joy and chasing pixies and princesses – for Tanner.

    Princesses Never Give Up, Until They Totally Do - Her Bad Mother 2010

  • She stared at me, goggling her eyes with exaggerated innocence.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Consider that Ed Miliband, the robotic, goggling fratricide, reads no novels, because they are "all made up", and it makes quite a lot of sense.

    But Mr Darcy, shouldn't we be taking precautions? | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • To paraphrase: When I win my vroom-car races, our annoyingly short national anthem means that my period of standing up on a big platform, bathed in the love of millions of people goggling at how stupendously great I am, is limited to only 30 seconds or so.

    So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse? 2011

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