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
Kurata also did the ensembles for the Oscar-nominated “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with its wardrobe of googly eyes and Elvis jumpsuits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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
Kerr snaffled two wickets in two balls as she bowled both Perry and Grace Harris through the gate with her googly - something England's Sarah Glenn may have watched with interest.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
Otto stomped back to the bike, while Sheed made his final googly eyes.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
"There was this little kid who bowled leg-spin, googlies and top-spinners. It was like Shane Warne."
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
Ahmed grew in confidence, bounding in, landing dipping leg-breaks and dangerous googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
Hafeez, whose first innings of the series ended on 98, sees it out without scoring, and is troubled by a couple of googlies.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015
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
On the second night of term he put it to Rayner that he was intending to bowl googlies.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
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