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Goggle   /gˈɑgəl/   Listen
noun
Goggle  n.  
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.



verb
Goggle  v. i.  (past & past part. goggled; pres. part. goggling)  To roll the eyes; to stare. "And wink and goggle like an owl."



adjective
Goggle  adj.  Full and rolling, or staring; said of the eyes. "The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes."






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"Goggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lady Yarmouth was dressed as a sultana; nobody was more beautiful than the Princess of Hesse." So, while poor Caroline was resting in her coffin, dapper little George, with his red face and his white eyebrows and goggle-eyes, at sixty years of age, is dancing a pretty dance with Madame Walmoden, and capering about dressed up like a Turk! For twenty years more, that little old Bajazet went on in this Turkish fashion, until the fit came which choked the old man, when he ordered ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... head, rolled his goggle-eyes, until I expected to see them slip out of their sockets; placed his dirty forefinger by the side of his broken nose; solemnly ejaculated "Coffee!" and immediately ran off into ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various

... on the old fellow, but come round,' pursued Mr. Ratsch. 'But now...' (he pulled a fat silver watch out of his pocket and put it up to one of his goggle eyes)'I'd better be toddling on, I suppose. I've another chick expecting me.... Devil knows what I'm teaching him,... mythology, by God! And he lives a long way off, the rascal, at the Red Gate! No matter; I'll toddle off on foot. Thanks to your brother's cutting his lesson, I ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... heads went round, and the stars went round, At the song that cruiser sung: Half a hundred goggle-eyed pirates When the ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... quarters, indeed, it has never held sway. A glance at Chinese dragons or Japanese gods will show how independent are Orientals of the conventional idea of facial and bodily regularity, and how keen and fiery is their enjoyment of real beauty, of goggle eyes, of sprawling claws, of gaping mouths and writhing coils. In the Middle Ages men broke away from the Greek standard of beauty, and lifted up in adoration to heaven great towers, which seemed alive with dancing apes and devils. In the full summer of technical artistic perfection ...
— The Defendant • G.K. Chesterton


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