googly-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more googly-eyed
form: most googly-eyed
Etymology: From googly eye.
Senses: examples: text: This girl comes up to me, this googly-eyed girl […] She has to be the ugliest *** that ever lived
ref: 2010, Brandy Taylor Fink, Disrupting Fraternity Culture, page 80:
text: Adding to that is the fact that the cow eye protrudes slightly from its socket, giving the cow a googly-eyed look.
ref: 2012, Florian Werner, Cow: A Bovine Biography, page 93:
text: Isaac was about to correct him on that score, but the googly-eyed man got there first.
ref: 2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, page 208:
text: Then he looked up to Pete's mirror. Aaargh! A googly-eyed monster looked back at him! "That's me." He laughed. "That magnifying glass sure does make my eye look big!"
ref: 2015, Barbara E. Moss, The Two Brothers Detective Agency:
text: Quentin's eyes bulged. He'd always had a googly-eyed stare, more like a dehydrated carp than a man, but Tess had never realized how prominent it was before.
ref: 2022, Tamara Berry, Buried in a Good Book:
glosses: Having prominent, bulging eyes; bug-eyed.
examples: text: I notice his sleepwear: candy corn sprinkled over flannel pants, a googly-eyed jack-o'-lantern grinning gaily from his T-shirt.
ref: 2017, Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden, page 15:
text: Milly and Tilly are googly-eyed cats who belong to a cheeky little baby called Penny.
ref: 2021, Henrietta MacKenzie, The Secret Lives of Two Googly-Eyed Cats:
text: In the hill-climbing case, for example, Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, and Paul Bloom presented six-month-old infants with scenes involving three googly-eyed geometric shapes.
ref: 2023, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, page 14:
glosses: Having circular eyes with large dark centers; Having craft googly eyes for eyes, or having eyes with similar appearance.
examples: text: It was you two, lookin' all googly-eyed at each other that held us up.
ref: 2013, Loree Lough, For Love of Eli, page 81:
text: But you guys are still in that gross googly-eyed stage, and I don't want to be there for that.
ref: 2018, L.A. Witt, Afraid to Fly:
text: […] And System 5 Biorhythm Opposites is opposite polarity googly-eyed partners." "Googly-eyed? Why Googly-eyed?" questioned Grandfather Terra. "Because they make googly eyes at each other across the table. They cannot talk but they can look at each other and make googly eyes."
ref: 2022, Jonathan Shubs, Sun's Dance of the Channels, page 179:
text: Even though they’re shifting the tone from googly-eyed naïveté to skepticism and even horror, they agree with Silicon Valley that computers and the internetworking thereof has revolutionized the mode of production.
ref: 2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:
text: Which painting had Amie gone googly-eyed for all those months ago?
ref: 2023, Heidi Chiavaroli, Where Faith Belongs:
glosses: Making googly eyes; giving a look of infatuation or adoration; moonstruck.
examples: text: He had said little during the long ride back from our hush-hush rendezvous, just staring googly-eyed and abstracted down the slab, stroking his jawline now and again, nodding his head silently as if to ratify that yes, yes, that certainly was a goddamn road ahead, lots of road.
ref: 2001, Larry L. King, The One-eyed Man, page 186:
text: There's a mellow vibe that I think stems from the lack of vehicle traffic, thanks to the shuttle that carries around the googly-eyed employees. I'm sure that after twelve hours in front of a computer there's some truth to the appellation of the Google faithful as googly-eyed.
ref: 2009, Jeffrey S. Jenkins, In Bolivia, page 142:
text: I was met with the googly-eyed stare of someone who has just awakened from a deep sleep.
ref: 2022, Wendy Willow, Silver Butterfly Wings:
text: I met his judgmental stare with a counter stare that I liked to think conveyed defiance. (Admittedly, without a mirror it was hard to tell. It might just have been a crazy, googly-eyed stare.)
ref: 2023, London Lovett, Better Off Shortbread:
glosses: Staring in an unfocussed manner.