googly
Americannoun
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googlies
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of googly
First recorded in 1900–05; origin uncertain
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Wearing a handmade sock puppet with large googly eyes she found at Walmart, Esquivel read “Snuggle Puppy!” in a high-pitched voice as her teenage daughter recorded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
They also remind him of the late comic actor Marty Feldman, whose googly eyes shot off in different directions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Not long after that, they saw the first bootleg merchandise: a toy version of Mico, el Micófono, a character that is just a microphone with googly eyes that street vendors could easily replicate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Rizwan was lbw sweeping, Salman Ali Agha trapped on the back leg and Aamer Jamal failed to pick a googly that he chopped on to his stumps.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
“One minute, you’re on a date with Ell, and the next you’re over here making googly eyes at this lothario!”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Brook and Livingstone were bowled by his googlies and afterwards the only boundaries were hit by England's skipper until one by Adil Rashid in the 19th over.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
Ahmed grew in confidence, bounding in, landing dipping leg-breaks and dangerous googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
“I’ll never bowl googlies again, never deliver a chinaman to a left-hander.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2017
Admittedly, few who speak of them know what right-arm spin, leg-breaks or googlies are, but that's irrelevant.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2011
The avenging of Gideon and the night of pitchers, the bowling of "googlies," the friendship of Finney ... astonishing that things so good should have slipped away.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
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