Goggle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡɒɡəl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Goggle is a verb meaning To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
Meaning
To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
More Meanings
- To roll the eyes.
- A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
- (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.
Example Sentences
Come and have a goggle at Fauzia’s new car!
Inflam’d all over with Disgrace, / To be seen by her in such a Place; / Which made him hang his Head, and scoul, / And wink, and goggle like an Owl
the rational pleas of astronomer Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) for the public to trust science and understand the seriousness of the coming disaster will sound uncomfortably familiar to anyone who has goggled in disbelief at COVID and/or vaccine denialism.
[...] 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.
Word Forms
- goggles
- goggling
- goggled
Synonyms for goggle
Depending on context, synonyms include gape, gawk, gawp.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gawp, gape, gawk, eye, glow, glout.
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