goggle — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.

   Synonyme

   gape

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut. [...] She left me fogged and groping for the inner meaning, and I could see from Aunt Dahlia's goggling eyes that the basic idea hadn't got across with her either. [...] I didn't want to be hampered by an audience. When you're pushing someone into a lake, nothing embarrasses you more than having the front seats filled up with goggling spectators.

   the rational pleas of astronomer Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) for the public to trust science and understand the seriousness of the coming disaster will sound uncomfortably familiar to anyone who has goggled in disbelief at COVID and/or vaccine denialism.

2. To roll the eyes.

   Beispiele

   Inflam’d all over with Disgrace, / To be seen by her in such a Place; / Which made him hang his Head, and scoul, / And wink, and goggle like an Owl

Substantiv

1. A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.

   Beispiele

   Come and have a goggle at Fauzia’s new car!

2. A pair of protective eyeglasses.

   Gebrauch

   • in-plural

Verb

1. look with amazement; look stupidly

   Synonyme

   gapegawpgawk

   Oberbegriffe

   look