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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goggle-eyed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She gasped repeatedly and Creed, goggle-eyed and slack-jawed, panted in time with her gasping.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goggle-eyed

Goggle-eyed \Gog"gle-eyed`\, a. Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
--Ascham.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goggle-eyed

late 14c.; see goggle (v.).

Wiktionary
goggle-eyed

a. Having prominent eyes

WordNet
goggle-eyed

adj. with eyes or mouth open in surprise [syn: openmouthed, popeyed]

Usage examples of "goggle-eyed".

She stared up at me brightly, and I caught a brief vision of Sara in full regalia pleading a case before a bemused Judge Cloke and twelve goggle-eyed jurors.

A refractive, chromed arm, one of four, waved accusingly at Whiskin while the two little Whiskins stood close to their mother, goggle-eyed at the confrontation.

Whiskin while the two little Whiskins stood close to their mother, goggle-eyed at the confrontation.

I said to some goggle-eyed chucklehead, some new bone-scared white mafocka my age fresh from the streets trying to be bad.

Over the lip of the dell in which she stood, a pale, glistening army appeared: a moaning wave of goggle-eyed, shapeless fleshy things, Lemures, the mindless, maggot-like living refuse of Hell.

A swimming school of cod followed their progress, peering in upon them, marveling, gaping goggle-eyed at the strange two-legged denizens of this underwater aquarium.

Goggle-eyed, I hit a string of offbeats and reminded myself that Jabba had plenty of time to come for us.

A refractive, chromed arm, one of four, waved accusingly at Whiskin while the two little Whiskins stood close to their mother, goggle-eyed at the confrontation.

Whiskin while the two little Whiskins stood close to their mother, goggle-eyed at the confrontation.

He let his gaze wander back to the little group of mounted cadgers, carrying the rest of the birds on the open frameworks strapped to their shoulders, and the dog handlers, struggling with a yapping pack of salukis who looked goggle-eyed and elephant-faced in their long-snouted breathing masks.

The three strangers did not allow their deep erudite discussion to interfere with their appreciation of Aunt Trudi's cooking, and at the bottom of the table the children ate in dutiful but goggle-eyed silence.

The following day, Procopius watched goggle-eyed as the Thracian cataphracts used the cushion as the target in their mounted archery exercises.

As confused as he sometimes felt, the other up-time residents were goggle-eyed with shock to find La-La Land's most notorious confidence artist walking the straight and narrow, working the first honest job of his life.

The man with his eyes squeezed halfway out of their sockets by the pressure of the rope, giving him a goggle-eyed stare that would last until the eyeballs fell into the cranial cavity.

They were both in their spotted pyjamas, clutching their companions a goggle-eyed blue snake for Lucy, and a koala bear for the redhead with a tightness that would have choked live pets.