GOGGLE - 11 definitions found
goggle v 1: look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle, gape, gawp, gawk] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) goggle I. intransitive verb (goggled; goggling) Etymology: Middle English gogelen to squint Date: 1742 to stare with wide or protuberant eyes • goggler noun II. adjective Date: 1540 protuberant, staring <goggle eyes> • goggly adjective Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary goggle (goggles, goggling, goggled) 1. If you goggle at something, you stare at it with your eyes wide open, usually because you are surprised by it. She goggled at me... He goggled in bewilderment. = gape VERB: V at n, V 2. Goggles are large glasses that fit closely to your face around your eyes to protect them from such things as water, wind, or dust. N-PLURAL: also a pair of N English Explanatory Dictionary goggle ˈɡɔɡl v., adj., & n. --v. 1 intr. a (often foll. by at) look with wide-open eyes. b (of the eyes) be rolled about; protrude. 2 tr. turn (the eyes) sideways or from side to side. --adj. (usu. attrib.) (of the eyes) protuberant or rolling. --n. 1 (in pl.) a spectacles for protecting the eyes from glare, dust, water, etc. b colloq. spectacles. 2 (in pl.) a sheep disease, the staggers. 3 a goggling expression. øgoggle-box Brit. colloq. a television set. goggle-dive an underwater dive in goggles. goggle-eyed having staring or protuberant eyes. [ME, prob. from a base gog (unrecorded) expressive of oscillating movement] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Goggle \Gog"gle\, v. 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. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Goggle \Gog"gle\, a. Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes. The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes. --Sir W. Scott. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Goggle \Gog"gle\, n. [See Goggle, v. 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms goggle I. v. n. Roll the eyes. II. n. Stare, owlish look, strained look. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 66 Moby Thesaurus words for "goggle": bag, balloon, bedroom eyes, bellied, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bore, bouge, bug, bug-eyed, bulge, bulged, come-hither look, crane, crane the neck, dilate, distend, evil eye, exophthalmic, eye, gape, gaup, gawk, gaze, gaze open-mouthed, glad eye, glare, gloat, glower, glowering look, goggled, look, look asquint, malocchio, ogle, peer, penetrating look, pooch, pop, popeyed, pouch, pouched, pout, round out, rubberneck, skew, squinch, squint, squint the eye, stand on tiptoe, stare, stare at, stare down, stare hard, swell, swell out, swollen, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, turgid, ventricose, whammy |
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