Crossword clues for googly
googly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
googly \googly\ n. (Cricket) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.
Syn: wrong 'un, bosie, bosie ball.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a noun, a cricket term, 1903, of unknown origin. As an adjective, of eyes, 1901.
Wiktionary
a. Of the eyes, bulge. n. (context cricket English) A ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
WordNet
n. a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way [syn: wrong 'un, bosie, bosie ball]
Wikipedia
Googly is a 2013 Indian Kannada language romantic comedy film directed by Pavan Wadeyar and produced by Jayanna Combines. Yash and Kriti Kharbanda are the lead actors while Ananth Nag and Sadhu Kokila play the primary supporting roles. The film released on 19 July 2013.
The film won multiple nominations at the 3rd South Indian International Movie Awards. Having been nominated in 11 categories, the film won SIIMA awards for Best Director ( Pavan Wadeyar), Best Cinematographer (Vaidi S.), Best Lyricist (Pavan Wadeyar) and Best Fight Choreographer (Ravi Varma).
Usage examples of "googly".
He looked at Janey with what Marissa had once heard referred to as googly eyes.
Cassie had already drawn up a pad and was jotting notes quickly enough to shake the googly eyes of the monster at the tip of the pen.
The big machine lit up and made a googly welcome-to-my-nightmare noise.
And so, with the father two open mouths away, Aaron pictures Jesus as a low-budget marionette, standing between two cardboard pillars, preaching to an audience of hand puppets with googly eyes.
Lightning still danced in the sky behind it, and I could only see it in ugly, hunchbacked outline, except for the electric light of its wide, round, googly eyes as it came toward me.
There is a couple standing behind her cuddling and making googly eyes at each other.
Kirsten was casting googly eyes toward Juan, who, at eighteen, was much too old for her.
He is a short, pudgy character, of maybe thirty, with a round face and googly eyes, and he is what is called a dramatic critic on one of the morning blatters, and his dodge is to observe new plays such as people are always putting on in the theaters and to tell his readers what he thinks of these plays, although generally what Ambrose Hammer really thinks of them is unfit for publication.
The last thing he wanted was a lovelorn Petra making googly eyes at him.
Lightning still danced in the sky behind it, and I could only see it in ugly, hunchbacked outline, except for the electric light of its wide, round, googly eyes as it came toward me.
He was so badly animated that no part of him moved but his pitifully stubby, flipperlike arms, his prognathous jaw, and his big googly eyes.
Ducat and Hayward made a capital stand considering the stickiness of the wicket, until Ducat was bowled by a good length off-break and Hayward caught at second slip off a googly.