goggle
English
Etymology
Compare Irish and Gaelic gog, a nod, a slight motion.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒ.ɡəl/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡəl
Verb
goggle (third-person singular simple present goggles, present participle goggling, simple past and past participle goggled)
- To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “IV, XII, and XV”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut. [...] She left me fogged and groping for the inner meaning, and I could see from Aunt Dahlia's goggling eyes that the basic idea hadn't got across with her either. [...] I didn't want to be hampered by an audience. When you're pushing someone into a lake, nothing embarrasses you more than having the front seats filled up with goggling spectators.
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- To roll the eyes.
- Hudibras
- And wink and goggle like an owl.
- Hudibras
Translations
Noun
goggle (plural goggles)
- A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
- (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.
Derived terms
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