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goggle-eyed, a.|ˈgɒg(ə)laɪd| [f. goggle eye (see goggle a.) + -ed2.] a. Having prominent, staring or rolling eyes; also, † squint-eyed. Also fig.
1382Wyclif Mark ix. 46 It is good to thee for to entre gogil yȝed in to rewme of God, than [etc.]. 1484Caxton Fables of Alfonce (1889) 7 Whan the porter byheld hym he perceyued that he was goglyed..And the goglyed wold paye nought. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 5 Gogle eyed tomson shepster of lyn. 1530Palsgr. 226/1 Goggleyed man, lovche. 1635Quarles Embl. v. xiv. (1718) 302 Giddy doubt, and goggle-ey'd suspicion. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 July, Young Manley's wife is..goggle-eyed, and looks like a fool. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. ix, He's the most hideous, goggle-eyed creature. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 26 Goggle-eyed, dazed. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. xvii. 128 The way in which the American male seemed to be pushed around by his womenfolk left Parisians goggle-eyed. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 765/4 Modern society need not stand goggle-eyed before it [sc. the automated production line]. b. goggle-eyed Jack = goggler 2.
1884–5[see goggler]. |