subs. (common).—1. A goggle-eyed person. Also GOGGLER.
1647. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Knight of Malta, v., 2. Do you stare, GOGGLES?
1891. W. C. RUSSELL, An Ocean Tragedy, p. 51. No use sending blind man aloft, GOGGLERS like myself, worse luck.
2. In pl. (common).—The eyes: specifically those with a constrained or rolling stare; also GOGGLE-EYES. GOGGLE-EYED = squint-eyed.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Strabo, he that looketh a squint or is GOGGLE-EIDE.
c. 1746. ROBERTSON OF STRUAN, Poems, ‘The Eagle and Peacock,’ 69.
| An Eagle of a dwarfish Size, | |
| With crooked Beak, and GOGLE EYES. |
d. 1763. BYROM, The Dissection of a Beau’s Head.
| Those muscles, in English, wherewith a man ogles, | |
| When on a fair lady he fixes his GOGGLES. |
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1821. P. EGAN, Life in London, p. 241. Rolling your GOGGLES about after all manner of people.
3. In pl. (common).—Spectacles. For synonyms, see BARNACLES.
Verb (colloquial).—GOGGLE—to roll the eyes; to stare.
1577–87. HOLINSHED, Description of Ireland, ch. i. They GOGGLE with their eyes hither and thither.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. GOGGLE, to stare.
1820–37. WALPOLE, Letters, iii., 174. He GOGGLED his eyes.
1880. MILLIKIN, Punch’s Almanack, April. Scissors! don’t they GOGGLE and look blue.
