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goggle

Syllables: gog·gle/ˈɡɒɡəl/US/ˈɡɑɡəl/

goggle verb: to stare (at something) with wide eyes.

Verb

goggle (third-person singular simple present goggles, present participle goggling, simple past and past participle goggled)

  1. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
    • [...] 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...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “IV, XII, AND XV”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
    • 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...2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club
    Synonyms:
    gape
  2. To roll the eyes.
    • 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 Owl1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished...

Noun

goggle (plural goggles)

  1. A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
    • Come and have a goggle at Fauzia’s new car!
  2. (in plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.

goggle meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

goggle in Tamil

காவியாடி, பற்றவைப்பவர்களும்

goggle in Bengali

goggle, spectacles, glasses
চশমা cośma

goggle in Malayalam

കണ്ണുരുട്ടുക, കണ്ണട, കണ്ണുമിഴിക്കുക, തുറിച്ചുനോക്കുക

goggle in Kannada

ಕಣ್ಣುಬ್ಬಿಸಿ ನೋಡು, ಕಣ್ಣರಳಿಸಿ ನೋಡು, ಕಣ್ಣು ತಿರುಗಿಸು, ಓರೆಯಾಗಿ ನೋಡು, ಕಣ್ಣು ಹೊರಳಿಸು, ಕಣ್ಣುಬ್ಬಿಸು

Synonyms of goggle

Forms of goggle

Verb
third-person singular presentgoggles
present participlegoggling
past participlegoggled
pastgoggled
Noun
pluralgoggles

Past tense of goggle: goggled

Origin of goggle

From 14th century Middle English gogelen (“to roll (eyes), to look sideways”). Earlier source is unknown. The noun is attested from the 17th century. Compare Irish gog (“a nod, a slight motion”).

Words formed from goggle

Phrases with goggle

Words that rhyme with goggle

Questions about goggle

What does goggle mean?
Goggle means to stare (at something) with wide eyes.
What is goggle in Tamil?
Goggle in Tamil is காவியாடி, பற்றவைப்பவர்களும். See Goggle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is goggle?
Goggle can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce goggle?
Goggle is pronounced /ˈɡɒɡəl/ (UK).
What is the past tense of goggle?
The past tense of goggle is goggled.

Words near goggle in the dictionary

  1. gogetterness
  2. gogga
  3. goggas
  4. Goggin
  5. Goggins
  6. goggle
  7. goggle box
  8. goggle boxes
  9. goggle-box
  10. goggle-boxes
  11. goggle-eye

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: goggle (page history and authors); goggle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); চশমা (Bengali) (page history and authors); goggle (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); goggle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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