¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goggling
1. goggle [v] - See also: goggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goggling
Literary usage of Goggling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kate Beaumont by John William De Forest (1872)
"No negroes, barring a few as attendants : the slave population is to have an
evening by itself ; then there will be goggling wonder and roaring laughter. ..."
2. Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1834)
"... and their eyes of flame, Twinkling and goggling, told, what pleasure grim 'Twould
give to rack and rend her limb from limb : —"Heaven take my soul! ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"There is no leisure at sea, sir, for goggling. ... goggling ! who's a goggling ?"
he roared. " By this and by that," and here he bellowed out a whole volley ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Such sight have they that see with goggling eyes. Especially when you goggle
thus, not much Unlike a Jew's, and yet some men might take 'em For Turk's. ..."
Other Resources:
