goggle-eye
(ˈgɒg(ə)lˌaɪ)
[See goggle a. and v.]
† a. One who squints (obs.). † b. Obliquity of vision; squinting (obs.). c. U.S. = goggler 2. d. (See quot. 1897.)
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 199/1 Glyare or goguleye.., limus, strabo. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 183 This disease, in colloquial language now called squinting, was formerly denominated goggle-eye. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 160 Two Kegs of Pickled Goggle-eyes. 1897 Webster, Goggle-eye, one of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidæ. |