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googly-eyed

googly-eyed adjective: having prominent, bulging eyes; bug-eyed.

googly-eyed: having prominent, bulging eyes; bug-eyed
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Adjective

googly-eyed (comparative more googly-eyed, superlative most googly-eyed)

  1. Having prominent, bulging eyes; bug-eyed.
    • This girl comes up to me, this googly-eyed girl […] She has to be the ugliest *** that ever lived2010, Brandy Taylor Fink, Disrupting Fraternity Culture, page 80
    • Adding to that is the fact that the cow eye protrudes slightly from its socket, giving the cow a googly-eyed look.2012, Florian Werner, Cow: A Bovine Biography, page 93
  2. Having circular eyes with large dark centers; Having craft googly eyes for eyes, or having eyes with similar appearance.
    • I notice his sleepwear: candy corn sprinkled over flannel pants, a googly-eyed jack-o'-lantern grinning gaily from his T-shirt.2017, Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden, page 15
    • Milly and Tilly are googly-eyed cats who belong to a cheeky little baby called Penny.2021, Henrietta MacKenzie, The Secret Lives of Two Googly-Eyed Cats
  3. Making googly eyes; giving a look of infatuation or adoration; moonstruck.
    • It was you two, lookin' all googly-eyed at each other that held us up.2013, Loree Lough, For Love of Eli, page 81
    • But you guys are still in that gross googly-eyed stage, and I don't want to be there for that.2018, L.A. Witt, Afraid to Fly
  4. Staring in an unfocussed manner.
    • He had said little during the long ride back from our hush-hush rendezvous, just staring googly-eyed and abstracted down the slab, stroking his jawline now and again, nodding his head silently as if to ratify that yes, yes, that certainly was a goddamn road ahead, lots of road.2001, Larry L. King, The One-eyed Man, page 186
    • There's a mellow vibe that I think stems from the lack of vehicle traffic, thanks to the shuttle that carries around the googly-eyed employees. I'm sure that after twelve hours in front of a computer there's some truth to the appellation of the Google faithful as googly-eyed.2009, Jeffrey S. Jenkins, In Bolivia, page 142

Examples of googly-eyed in a sentence

  • Isaac was about to correct him on that score, but the googly-eyed man got there first.2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, page 208:
  • A googly-eyed monster looked back at him!2015, Barbara E. Moss, The Two Brothers Detective Agency:
  • He'd always had a googly-eyed stare, more like a dehydrated carp than a man, but Tess had never realized how prominent it was before.2022, Tamara Berry, Buried in a Good Book:
  • In the hill-climbing case, for example, Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, and Paul Bloom presented six-month-old infants with scenes involving three googly-eyed geometric shapes.2023, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, page 14:

Forms of googly-eyed

comparativemore googly-eyed
superlativemost googly-eyed

Origin of googly-eyed

From googly eye.

Questions about googly-eyed

What does googly-eyed mean?
Googly-eyed means having prominent, bulging eyes; bug-eyed.
How do you use googly-eyed in a sentence?
Isaac was about to correct him on that score, but the googly-eyed man got there first.
What part of speech is googly-eyed?
Googly-eyed is an adjective.

Words near googly-eyed in the dictionary

  1. googly eye
  2. googly eyed
  3. googly eyeing
  4. googly eyes
  5. googly moogly
  6. googly-eyed
  7. googly-moogly
  8. googob
  9. googobs
  10. googol
  11. googolbyte

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