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goggling

goggling is the present participle and gerund of goggle.

Meaning of goggle

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
    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...

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Noun

goggling (plural gogglings)

  1. A stare of curiosity or amazement.

Forms of goggling

pluralgogglings

Questions about goggling

What does goggling mean?
Goggling means a stare of curiosity or amazement.
What is goggling the present participle and gerund of?
Goggling is the present participle and gerund of goggle.
What part of speech is goggling?
Goggling is a noun.
What is the plural of goggling?
The plural of goggling is gogglings.

Words near goggling in the dictionary

  1. goggles
  2. gogglesome
  3. gogglet
  4. gogglets
  5. Goggleye
  6. goggling
  7. gogglings
  8. goggly
  9. gogl-mogl
  10. goglet
  11. goglets

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