goggle-eyed

comparative more goggle-eyed · superlative most goggle-eyed

1. Having prominent eyes; with the eyes widely opened or protruding, either naturally or from astonishment or curiosity.

   1993, Bob Cryer, Hansard, Mines health and safety, 26 October, 1993, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ The Minister knew that it was controversial, but as he is an arrogant, right-wing, goggle-eyed extremist, he does not care.

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   […] now and then we met a goggle-eyed pilgrim trudging along, and staring about him as if he waited only for night and opportunity to have additional reasons for hurrying to Jerusalem.

   1783, William Beckford, Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, Letter 13

   Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party.

   1958 March 10, Time

   1974, Esther Pasztory, The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc, Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 15, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. https://books.google.ca/books?id=L0QClI2QOwQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The frequency of goggle-eyed figures and water symbolism in Teotihuacan art has misled investigators into assuming that ll figures with these associations represent Tlaloc.

   Synonyms: boggle-eyed