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Definition: Goggle |
GoggleVerb1. Look with amazement; look stupidly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goggle" was first used: 1540. (references) |
Synonyms: GoggleSynonyms: gape (v), gawk (v), gawp (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goggle |
| English words defined with "goggle": Goggled, Goggling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "goggle": glass breaker ♦ LENS MATCHER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Goggle Fishing Bear (1949) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Plate 100. The Goggler or "Goggle Eye." Caranx crumenopthalmus (Bloch), Lac. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Checking Of Goggle Lenses : School Of Aviation Medicine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Goggle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Goggle" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 33.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "goggle": goggle at ♦ goggle at smb. ♦ goggle box. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "goggle": goggle-box, goggle-eye, goggle-eyed, goggle-eyes, goggle-glasses, goggle-visor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "goggle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgurdulloj, syçakërr (cockeyed, goggle-eyed, squint eyed), me sy të zgurdulluar. (various references) | |
Arabic | حملق, جحظ بعينيه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шаря с очи, ококорвам (open smb.'s eyes wide, stare), ококорен (pop-eyed, saucer-eyed, staring, wide-eyed), пуля се (blink), изненадан поглед, изпъкнал (bossy, bulging, bunchy, convex, eminent, outstanding, projecting, projective, prominent, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, salient, swelling). (various references) | |
Chinese | 凝视 (Peered, Peering). (various references) | |
Czech | zírat (gaze, peer), vyvalovat, kulit oèi. (various references) | |
Farsi | چپ نگاه کردن (Squint), چشم گرداندن , گشتن (Go, Grow, Roam, Roll, Search, Swirl, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise). (various references) | |
French | rouler de gros yeux ronds, regarder en roulant de gros yeux ronds, lunettes loup. (various references) | |
German | glotzen (boggle, gape, gawk, gawp, stare). (various references) | |
Greek | γουρλώνω τα μάτια, γουρλώνω. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemforgatás (sanctimony), kidülledt szem (bulging eyes), forgatja a szemét, bámészkodik (to catch flies). (various references) | |
Indonesian | melotot. (various references) | |
Italian | guardare stralunato, stralunare gli occhi, sguardo stralunato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金壺眼 (goggle eyes, greedy look), 団 眼 (goggle-eyes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ど"ぐりまな" (goggle-eyes), かなつぼまな" (goggle eyes, greedy look). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stirre (gaze). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogglegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saliente (beetle, beetling, outstanding, prominent, protruding, protuberant, salient, tumid), revirar os olhos, protuberante (protuberant, tumescent, tumid), fitar (eye, gloat, regard, touch upon), esbugalhar, esbugalhado, arregalar (stare), óculos de proteção (blinker, preserve). (various references) | |
Romanian | se holba (pop), privire speriatã, privi cruciş, ochelari de cal, holba, bulbuca. (various references) | |
Russian | таращить глаза (stare), вращать глазами, выпученный, изумленный (amazed, flabbergasted, starstruck, wonder-struck). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zrikav (be cross eyed, cross-eyed, squint), razrogačiti, kolutanje očima, buljiti (glower, stare), buljenje (stare). (various references) | |
Spanish | salirse los ojos, mirada sorprendida, con ojos desorbitados (open-eyed). (various references) | |
Swedish | rulla med ögonen (roll one's eyes). (various references) | |
Thai | จ้องมอง (fix on, fix upon, gaze at, gaze on, gaze upon, get a load of, regard). (various references) | |
Turkish | yan bakmak (leer, squint at), yan bakma (leer), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), fırlama (bolt, bound, ejection, flying off, jump, saltation, spring, start, zoom), şaşı bakmak (squint, squint at). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вирячений (bulging, popped), витріщати очі, витрішкувата людина, витрішкуватий (stalk-eyed), випинатися (bag, bulge, jut, knob, overhang, peak, project, stick up), здивований погляд. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l"i mắt (goggle-eyed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | gogelen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goggle": goggled, goggler, gogglers, goggles. (additional references) | |
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"Goggle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doggle, Geggie, gloogle, gogal, gogle, gogli, gogul, Gogulov, googel, googgle, google, googlie, gougle, gugle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goggle" (pronounced gÄ"gul) |
| 4 | -Ä" g u l | boggle, boondoggle, toggle. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, beagle, bedraggle, Bogle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, eagle, entangle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, Spangle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, strangle, struggle, swingle, tangle, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, juggle, jungle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, rectangle, regal, shingle, single, smuggle, snuggle, tingle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-l-o" | |
-1 letter: glogg. | |
-2 letters: gleg, loge, ogle. | |
-3 letters: egg, ego, gel, leg, log, ole. | |
-4 letters: el, go, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-g-l-o" | |
+1 letter: goggled, goggler, goggles. | |
+2 letters: gogglers, gogglier. | |
+3 letters: doglegged, goggliest. | |
+4 letters: beclogging, doglegging. | |
+5 letters: bootlegging, geologizing, lollygagged. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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