Meaning of googly-eyed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having prominent, bulging eyes; bug-eyed.
2. Having circular eyes with large dark centers; Having craft googly eyes for eyes, or having eyes with similar appearance.
3. Making googly eyes; giving a look of infatuation or adoration; moonstruck.
4. Staring in an unfocussed manner.

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Examples

“This girl comes up to me, this googly-eyed girl […] She has to be the ugliest *** that ever lived”

“Adding to that is the fact that the cow eye protrudes slightly from its socket, giving the cow a googly-eyed look⟳.”

“Isaac was about to correct⟳ him on that score⟳, but the googly-eyed man got there first.”

“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!"”

“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.”

“I notice⟳ his sleepwear: candy corn sprinkled over flannel pants, a googly-eyed jack-o'-lantern grinning gaily from his T-shirt.”

“Milly and Tilly are googly-eyed cats who belong⟳ to a cheeky little baby called Penny.”

“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.”

“It was you two, lookin' all googly-eyed at each other that held us up.”

“But you guys are still in that gross googly-eyed stage⟳, and I don't want⟳ to be there for that.”

“[…] 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."”

“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.”

“Which painting had Amie gone googly-eyed for all those months ago?”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was met with the googly-eyed stare⟳ of someone who has just awakened from a deep sleep⟳.”

“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⟳.)”

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