The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goggler \Gog"gler\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A carangoid oceanic fish ( Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of two or more species of American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae. 2 # The warmouth, (taxlink Lepomis gulosus species noshow=1), of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters. 3 # (taxlink Ambloplites rupestris species noshow=1), of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. 4 A fish, the goggler, (taxlink Selar crumenophthalmus species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait [syn: bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, Selar crumenophthalmus]
Usage examples of "goggle-eye".
Juss, enforcing his half frozen limbs to resume the ascent, beheld a sight of woe too terrible for the eye: a young man, helmed and graithed in dark iron, a black-a-moor with goggle-eyes and white teeth agrin, who held by the neck a fair young lady kneeling on her knees and clasping his as in supplication, and he most bloodily brandishing aloft his spear of six foot of length as minded to reave her of her life.
He found large-mouth black bass, goggle-eyes, two species of sunfish, hickory shad, and several kinds of minnows.