agoggle

Goggling: (of a person or face) staring with wide eyes; (of eyes) opened wide to stare.

Adjective

  1. Goggling: (of a person or face) staring with wide eyes; (of eyes) opened wide to stare.
    • his starting eyes / Both wide agoggle, twice their size. - 1859, J. Stanyan Bigg, “Urban, the Monk”, in Lays of the Sanctuary and Other Poems, London: E. Good, page 277:
    • [He] was agoggle with surprise. - 1969, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 25, in The Tremor of Forgery, Penguin, published 1987, page 234:
    • I turned, to discover Louise’s face, pressed against the glass, a-goggle with worry and concern. - 1977, Nigel Williams, My Life Closed Twice, London: Faber and Faber, published 1986, Part 3, Chapter 20, p. 169:
  2. 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!
    • […] the Crows were agoggle at the results of Jim’s dickering. - 1970, Marian T. Place, chapter 9, in Mountain Man, London: Crowell-Collier, page 88:
    • […] a mysterious intruder leaving diminutive size-six footprints had residents agoggle. - 2008, Michael Norman, chapter 21, in Haunted Homeland,, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, page 390:

Origin

From a- + goggle.

Forms

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