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Webster 1913 Edition


Goggle

Gog′gle

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Goggled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Goggling
.]
[Cf. Ir. & Gael.
gog
a nod, slight motion.]
To roll the eyes; to stare.
And wink and
goggle
like an owl.
Hudibras.

Gog′gle

,
Adj.
Full and rolling, or staring; – said of the eyes.
The long, sallow vissage, the
goggle
eyes.
Sir W. Scott.

Gog′gle

,
Noun.
[See
Goggle
,
Verb.
I.
]
1.
A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
2.
pl.
(a)
A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
(b)
Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
(c)
A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
(d)
Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.

Webster 1828 Edition


Goggle

GOG'GLE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. celo; or from gog.]
To strain or roll the eyes.
And wink and goggle like an owl.

GOG'GLE

,
Adj.
Having full eyes; staring.

GOG'GLE

,
Noun.
A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

Definition 2024


goggle

goggle

English

Verb

goggle (third-person singular simple present goggles, present participle goggling, simple past and past participle goggled)

  1. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter 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.
  2. To roll the eyes.
    • Hudibras
      And wink and goggle like an owl.

Translations

Noun

goggle (plural goggles)

  1. A wide-eyed stare.
  2. (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.

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