Googly
[goo-glee] /ˈgu gli/
noun, plural googlies. Cricket.
1.
a bowled ball that swerves in one direction and breaks in the other.
/ˈɡuːɡlɪ/
noun (pl) -lies
1.
(cricket) an off break bowled with a leg break action
as a noun, a cricket term, 1903, of unknown origin. As an adjective, of eyes, 1901.
adjective
Protruding; exophthalmic: her great big googly eyes
[1901+; origin uncertain; perhaps fr goggle, which meant ”stare at admiringly or amorously”; perhaps fr mid-1800s google, ”the Adam’s apple,” where the eyes are thought of as similarly protruding; perhaps influenced by goo in the sense of ”sentimental, amorous”; popularized by the hero of a comic strip]
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