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▪ I. googly, n. Cricket.|ˈguːglɪ|
Also googlie, google.
[Origin unknown.]
A ball which breaks from the off, though bowled with apparent leg-break action.
1903C. B. Fry in P. F. Warner How We recovered Ashes (1904) ii. 29 You must persuade that Bosanquet of yours to practise..those funny ‘googlies’ of his. 1904P. F. Warner How We recovered Ashes 106 Bosanquet..can bowl as badly as anyone in the world, but, when he gets a length, those slow ‘googlies’, as the Australian papers call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players. 1909P. A. Vaile in Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 14/2 The ‘googly’ is merely the American service at lawn-tennis introduced into cricket. 1920[see bosie]. 1924N. Cardus Days in Sun 48 Hirst cultivated the swerve and Bosanquet the ‘googly’. 1930[see bosie]. 1954J. H. Fingleton Ashes crown Year 46 Australians call it bosie after Bosanquet..Englishmen call it the google, or googly. 1955[see Chinaman 4].
fig. and transf.
1916Anzac Book 128 You could reach it in three bomb⁓throws, if the last of the three happened to be a ‘googly’ and swerved in from the off. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 32 Googly, an awkward question which a person would rather not answer. 1947I. Brown Say Word 60 Australian airmen called a bomb both a bosey and a googly during the war.
b. attrib. or as adj., esp. in googly bowler, googly bowling.
1909Westm. Gaz. 12 June 16/1 The discovery of so capable a ‘googlie’ bowler as Mr. Lockhart. Ibid. 12 Aug. 3/2 Googlie bowling is very wearisome work both to the fingers and the right side. Ibid. 17 Sept. 14/2 One ‘googly’⁓man does not necessarily win Tests. 1911P. F. Warner Bk. Cricket iii. 62 Mr. Bosanquet has been called the ‘Googlie King’. 1921A. W. Myers 20 Yrs. Lawn Tennis 9 Fifteen years ago, Brookes mainly employed a ‘googly’ service. 1924N. Cardus Days in Sun 80 Tyldesley..was also one of the first batsmen to master the new ‘googly’ bowling. 1971Sunday Express (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 22/3 Kerry O'Keefe, 21-year-old leg break and googly bowler whom the Australians regard as the new Bill O'Reilly, has agreed to join Somerset.
▪ II. googly, a.|ˈguːglɪ|
Also -ey.
[Cf. goo-goo a.]
1. Of eyes: large, round, and staring. Hence ˈgoogly-eyed a.
1901‘H. McHugh’ Down Line 35 Is id to my face you go behind my back to make googley-googley eyes. 1926Spectator 21 Aug. 287/2 A golliwog hugging in its hideous embrace a googley-eyed Dutch doll. 1927Daily Mirror 10 Dec. 16/1 Others with movable googly eyes in a hand-painted face. 1928Daily Express 20 June 13/6 Strange, googly-eyed goldfish. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xiii. 298 No more beetles in my tea Making googly eyes at me.
2. Disposed to love-making, ‘spoony’.
1929W. Deeping Roper's Row x. §3. 107 She ascribed Mr. George's googly, amorous interest to fatherliness. 1932C. Williams Greater Trumps v. 85 And father would say, ‘Really, Sybil!’ without being googly. |