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English
Etymology
a- + goggle
Adjective
agoggle (comparative more agoggle, superlative most agoggle)
- Goggling: (of a person or face) staring with wide eyes; (of eyes) opened wide to stare.
1859, J. Stanyan Bigg, “Urban, the Monk”, in Lays of the Sanctuary and Other Poems, London: E. Good, page 277:his starting eyes / Both wide agoggle, twice their size.
1977, Nigel Williams, My Life Closed Twice, London: Faber and Faber, published 1986, Part 3, Chapter 20, p. 169:I turned, to discover Louise’s face, pressed against the glass, a-goggle with worry and concern.
2008, N. S. Köenings, “Sisters for Shama”, in Theft, New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown, page 193:The boys, still young, not yet enamored of kung fu, would sprawl below the soft brown sofa, legs and hands entangled, eyes agoggle at the screen.
- Amazed (at something).
- a. 1839, William Eaton, “An Essay” cited in James Nack, Earl Rupert, and Other Tales and Poems, New York: George Adlard, 1839, p. 128,
- such poetry as this / Must set you all a-goggle!
1970, Marian T. Place, chapter 9, in Mountain Man, London: Crowell-Collier, page 88:[…] the Crows were agoggle at the results of Jim’s dickering.
2008, Michael Norman, chapter 21, in Haunted Homeland,, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, page 390:[…] a mysterious intruder leaving diminutive size-six footprints had residents agoggle.