goggle-eyed, a.
(ˈgɒg(ə)laɪd)
[f. goggle eye (see goggle a.) + -ed2.]
a. Having prominent, staring or rolling eyes; also, † squint-eyed. Also fig.
| 1382 Wyclif Mark ix. 46 It is good to thee for to entre gogil yȝed in to rewme of God, than [etc.]. 1484 Caxton Fables of Alfonce (1889) 7 Whan the porter byheld hym he perceyued that he was goglyed..And the goglyed wold paye nought. c 1515 Cocke Lorell's B. 5 Gogle eyed tomson shepster of lyn. 1530 Palsgr. 226/1 Goggleyed man, lovche. 1635 Quarles Embl. v. xiv. (1718) 302 Giddy doubt, and goggle-ey'd suspicion. 1711 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 July, Young Manley's wife is..goggle-eyed, and looks like a fool. 1844 Dickens Mart. Chuz. ix, He's the most hideous, goggle-eyed creature. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 26 Goggle-eyed, dazed. 1942 E. Paul Narrow St. xvii. 128 The way in which the American male seemed to be pushed around by his womenfolk left Parisians goggle-eyed. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 765/4 Modern society need not stand goggle-eyed before it [sc. the automated production line]. |
b. goggle-eyed Jack = goggler 2.
| 1884–5 [see goggler]. |