Meaning of goggle-eyed | Babel Free

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Having prominent eyes; with the eyes widely opened or protruding, either naturally or from astonishment or curiosity.

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“[…] now and then we met a goggle-eyed pilgrim trudging along, and staring about him as if he waited only for night and opportunity to have⟳ additional reasons for hurrying to Jerusalem.”

“Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow⟳, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like⟳ a rather simple question⟳, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have⟳ of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party.”

“1974, Esther Pasztory, The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc, Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 15, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. https://books.google.ca/books?id=L0QClI2QOwQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The frequency of goggle-eyed figures and water symbolism in Teotihuacan art has misled investigators into assuming that ll figures with these associations represent⟳ Tlaloc.”

“1993, Bob Cryer, Hansard, Mines health and safety, 26 October, 1993, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ The Minister knew that it was controversial, but as he is an arrogant, right-wing, goggle-eyed extremist, he does not care.”

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