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Plural of googly

regular plural

The plural of googly is googlies.

Forms of googly

Singulargoogly /ˈɡʉːɡli/
Pluralgooglies
Countablecountable

Googlies in a sentence

  • He can bowl as badly as anyone in the world, but when he gets a length those slow googlies, as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.1904 March 9, The Otago Witness, Otago, page 52

Meaning of googly

  1. noun A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
  2. adjective Bulging.
  3. adjective Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.

Full definition of googly

Questions about the plural of googly

What is the plural of googly?
The plural of googly is googlies.
Is googly countable?
Googly is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: googly (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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