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agoggle

agoggle adjective: goggling: (of a person or face) staring with wide eyes; (of eyes) opened wide to stare.

Adjective

agoggle (comparative more agoggle, superlative most agoggle)

  1. Goggling: (of a person or face) staring with wide eyes; (of eyes) opened wide to stare.
    • his starting eyes / Both wide agoggle, twice their size.1859, J. Stanyan Bigg, “Urban, the Monk”, in Lays of the Sanctuary and Other Poems, London: E. Good, page 277
    • [He] was agoggle with surprise.1969, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 25, in The Tremor of Forgery, Penguin, published 1987, page 234
  2. Amazed (at something).
    • a. 1839, William Eaton, “An Essay” cited in James Nack, Earl Rupert, and Other Tales and Poems, New York: George Adlard, 1839, p. 128,
      such poetry as this / Must set you all a-goggle!
    • […] the Crows were agoggle at the results of Jim’s dickering.1970, Marian T. Place, chapter 9, in Mountain Man, London: Crowell-Collier, page 88

Examples of agoggle in a sentence

  • The boys, still young, not yet enamored of kung fu, would sprawl below the soft brown sofa, legs and hands entangled, eyes agoggle at the screen.2008, N. S. Köenings, “Sisters for Shama”, in Theft, New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown, page 193:
  • […] a mysterious intruder leaving diminutive size-six footprints had residents agoggle.2008, Michael Norman, chapter 21, in Haunted Homeland,, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, page 390:

Forms of agoggle

comparativemore agoggle
superlativemost agoggle

Origin of agoggle

From a- + goggle.

Questions about agoggle

What does agoggle mean?
Agoggle means goggling: (of a person or face) staring with wide eyes; (of eyes) opened wide to stare.
How do you use agoggle in a sentence?
The boys, still young, not yet enamored of kung fu, would sprawl below the soft brown sofa, legs and hands entangled, eyes agoggle at the screen.
What part of speech is agoggle?
Agoggle is an adjective.

Words near agoggle in the dictionary

  1. agoe
  2. agog
  3. agogare
  4. agoge
  5. agoges
  6. agoggle
  7. agoggled
  8. agogic
  9. agogics
  10. agogo
  11. agogo bell

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