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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.
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.
To strain or roll the eyes.
And wink and goggle like an owl.
GOG'GLE
,Adj.
GOG'GLE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
goggle
goggle
English
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, “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.
-
- To roll the eyes.
- Hudibras
- And wink and goggle like an owl.
- Hudibras
Translations
stare with wide eyes
Noun
goggle (plural goggles)
- A wide-eyed stare.
- (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.
Derived terms
Translations
a pair of protective eyeglasses — see goggles