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GOGGLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does goggle mean?
• GOGGLE (verb)
The verb GOGGLE has 1 sense:
1. look with amazement; look stupidly
Familiarity information: GOGGLE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: goggled
Past participle: goggled
-ing form: goggling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look with amazement; look stupidly
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "goggle" is one way to...):
look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples
And the look of it—the great staring goggle eyes, and the line of white teeth like a hungry beast.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Using safety gloves, goggles and other protective equipment can also reduce accidents.
(Farm Health and Safety, Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Examples are: • Sunglasses • Safety goggles • Glasses (also called eyeglasses) • Contact lenses
(Eye Wear, NIH)
The mad gentleman looked on, out of my little window; Mr. Chillip's baby wagged its heavy head, and rolled its goggle eyes, at the clergyman, over its nurse's shoulder; Mr. Omer breathed short in the background; no one else was there; and it was very quiet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At the same instant I heard the crash of Lord John's elephant-gun, and, looking up, saw one of the creatures with a broken wing struggling upon the ground, spitting and gurgling at us with a wide-opened beak and blood-shot, goggled eyes, like some devil in a medieval picture.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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