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.

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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