Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having prominent or rolling eyes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having prominent squinting or rolling eyes; squint-eyed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having prominent eyes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective with eyes or mouth open in surprise

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Examples

  • And a goggle-eyed character named “Google-Eyes” may leave some children using the incorrect phrase for a lifetime.

    2009 June 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • [I'm goggle-eyed here, in case nobody can see -- ksa]

    2010 April — Fusion Despatches 2010

  • Holy ... well, I'm a bit goggle-eyed but, not about Max.

    Next Psy/Changeling Book Nalini Singh 2009

  • And a goggle-eyed character named “Google-Eyes” may leave some children using the incorrect phrase for a lifetime.

    2009 June « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • [I'm goggle-eyed here, in case nobody can see -- ksa]

    BU Blog Out: Brenna Lyons — Fusion Despatches 2010

  • I am a frog, on the dank edge of a great darkness, gazing goggle-eyed at the mystery and wonder of their flaming souls.

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • At Million Dollar Point, on the east end of the island, goggle-eyed snorkelers survey vast amounts of equipment — trucks, tractors, what look to be small vessels, spare parts, earth-moving machinery — that still lie in the shallow grave where the Americans dumped them, on a once-pristine coral reef.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • At Million Dollar Point, on the east end of the island, goggle-eyed snorkelers survey vast amounts of equipment — trucks, tractors, what look to be small vessels, spare parts, earth-moving machinery — that still lie in the shallow grave where the Americans dumped them, on a once-pristine coral reef.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Kelly Cates's 90‑second report from Rorke's Drift summing up the Zulu wars was pretty breathtaking, and do not even get me started on Dan and Rob Walker on the BBC Bus, with their series of goggle-eyed What I Did On My Holidays features.

    World Cup 2010: Can we have less whale watching and more football? 2010

  • At Million Dollar Point, on the east end of the island, goggle-eyed snorkelers survey vast amounts of equipment — trucks, tractors, what look to be small vessels, spare parts, earth-moving machinery — that still lie in the shallow grave where the Americans dumped them, on a once-pristine coral reef.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

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  • Magnus Bede chewing his lip, his wife chewing her nails, and Charles chewing her apron all stood goggle-eyed as Yorick swallowed the antidote...

    - William Steig, The Toy Brother

    September 15, 2008