goggle — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

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

   Sinonimi

   gape

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (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.

   Esempi

   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

Sostantivo

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

   Esempi

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

2. A pair of protective eyeglasses.

   Uso

   • in-plural

Verbo

1. look with amazement; look stupidly

   Sinonimi

   gapegawpgawk

   Termini più generali

   look