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noun

Goggle n.

A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

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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Etymology of 'Goggle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Japanese: 70 Gape-jaw and goggle-eye, the frog; Dragons, owls, monkeys, beetles, geese; Some crush-nosed human-hearted dog: Queer names, too, such ...

— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... ferocity. The editor of the Minnesotian would refer to the editor of the Times as "Mr. Timothy Muggins Newson"—his right name being Thomas M. Newson—and the Times would frequently mention Dr. Foster as the "red-nosed, goggle-eyed editor of the Minnesotian." To effect a reconciliation between these two editors required the best diplomatic talent of the party leaders. After frequent consultations between the leading men of the party and the managers of the two ...

— Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul • Frank Moore

... six years old. He was born half a year before our eldest girl; and is accordingly looked upon as a kind of elder brother by the children. He is a small, beautiful liver-coloured spaniel, but not one of your goggle-eyed Blenheim breed. He is none of your lap dogs. No, Rover has a soul above that. You may make him your friend, but he scorns to be a pet. No one can see him without admiring him, and no one can know him without loving him. He is as regularly inquired after as any other member of the ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13, Issue 353, January 24, 1829 • Various

... for anything to come my way, when all of a sudden I sees a goggle-capped tiger throw open the door of one of them plate-glass benzine broughams at the curb, and bend over like he has a pain under his vest. I was just side-steppin' to make room for some upholstered old battle-ax that I supposed owned the rig, when I feels a hand on my ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... frogs there lives in the garden a huge uncouth goggle-eyed thing which, although called here hikigaeru, I take to be a toad. 'Hikigaeru' is the term ordinarily used for a bullfrog. This creature enters the house almost daily to be fed, and seems to have ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

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