goggle
Americannoun
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goggles,
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large spectacles equipped with special lenses, protective rims, etc., to prevent injury to the eyes from strong wind, flying objects, blinding light, etc.
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spectacles designed for a special purpose, as night-vision or stereoscopic goggles.
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Informal. glasses, or eyeglasses.
I can't see a thing without my goggles.
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a bulging or wide-open look of the eyes; stare.
verb (used without object)
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goggles,
present (3rd person singular)
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goggled,
past participle, past
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goggling
present participle
verb (used with object)
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goggles,
present (3rd person singular)
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goggled,
past participle, past
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goggling
present participle
adjective
verb
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(intr) to stare stupidly or fixedly, as in astonishment
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to cause (the eyes) to roll or bulge or (of the eyes) to roll or bulge
noun
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a fixed or bulging stare
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(plural) spectacles, often of coloured glass or covered with gauze: used to protect the eyes
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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gogglesimple
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gogglessimple
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have goggledperfect
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has goggledperfect
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am gogglingprogressive
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are gogglingprogressive
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is gogglingprogressive
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have been gogglingperfect progressive
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has been gogglingperfect progressive
Past
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goggledsimple
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had goggledperfect
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was gogglingprogressive
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were gogglingprogressive
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had been gogglingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of goggle
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English gogelen “to look aside, squint”
Explanation
When you goggle, you stare with wide-open bug eyes. You might goggle at a monkey riding a unicycle down the main street of your town. You may have heard of goggles — those large, plastic glasses that you use to protect your eyes while you are skiing or using a blowtorch. You might look like you are wearing goggles when you goggle at something. If you are looking for a new way to say "What are you looking at?!" Try: "What are you goggling at?!"
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In the film, Derpy is the fluorescent tiger with goggle eyes that always appears with its sidekick, a three-eyed bird named Sussy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2025
Army soldiers have completed intensive testing of Microsoft’s new multifunction goggle — and the results may determine whether Congress rejects most of the $424.2 million proposed in next year’s defense budget to keep buying them.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
The Tactical edition is “popular with military personnel” and has features such as stealth mode and night vision goggle compatibility.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2022
Sporting high-cut helmets with night-vision goggle mounts, plate carriers and U.S. camouflage patterns, the guards looked like caricatures of the elite troops who have hunted insurgents in nightly raids and firefights.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
“You’ve already seen him, Ginny, and the poor boy isn’t something you goggle at in a zoo. Is he really, Fred? How do you know?”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Nathan Fielder, on such comic-reality shows as HBO’s “The Rehearsal,” has demonstrated that warped goggles can make a fuzzy truth come more clearly into focus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Most teams don ski goggles to celebrate with champagne and beer showers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
She didn’t bring goggles or even a big coat to survive the cold, dusty nights.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
I would arrive armed with what I liked to call my anti-drowning armour: armbands, floats, goggles, and a swimming hat.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
My eyes are squeezed shut, despite the goggles.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Tourists and Parisians goggled at the sight of the French capital's oldest bridge transformed into a giant "cave" on Thursday, a spectacular new public work by the street artist JR.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
There was a whole wall of car parts lit up in pink that I goggled at for a minute.
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
Inside, I goggled alongside the tourists at classic works of Western art sitting alongside Chinese and Indian and Arab masterpieces.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2020
On the next day’s return ride we goggled at pirouetting model planes over the Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society’s home field, Michell Airpark, off the Lochside trail north of Martindale Road.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
Instead of crying out for help, she merely goggled at him as they fled past the spot where he stood.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
All of us New Yorkers stopped dead, goggling at plates that held individual molds of red Jell-O topped with a dab of something too yellow to be Cool Whip.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2019
Or is what appears to be a progressively melting brain simply the same broken bits we’ve been goggling at for years?
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2019
Bevin “was visibly a bruiser with a bull neck and loud voice. He was squat at 240 pounds with putty-lump features and a goggling stare that gave him an aura of menace.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
Carter looks at me like I’m a goggling idiot.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2015
“Where’ve you — blimey, what’ve you done to your face?” said Ron, goggling at him along with everyone else in the vicinity.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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