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googly

[goo-glee] / ˈgu gli /


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Kurata also did the ensembles for the Oscar-nominated “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with its wardrobe of googly eyes and Elvis jumpsuits.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Writer Greg Stolze posted a while back about “some professor” who “put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying ‘Hi!

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Not long after that, they saw the first bootleg merchandise: a toy version of Mico, el Micófono, a character that is just a microphone with googly eyes that street vendors could easily replicate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

Kerr snaffled two wickets in two balls as she bowled both Perry and Grace Harris through the gate with her googly - something England's Sarah Glenn may have watched with interest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

Otto stomped back to the bike, while Sheed made his final googly eyes.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Brook and Livingstone were bowled by his googlies and afterwards the only boundaries were hit by England's skipper until one by Adil Rashid in the 19th over.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025

"There was this little kid who bowled leg-spin, googlies and top-spinners. It was like Shane Warne."

From BBC ● May 31, 2023

Hafeez, whose first innings of the series ended on 98, sees it out without scoring, and is troubled by a couple of googlies.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015

Sky subscriptions may be buoyant and ITV may have clambered out of the ditch, but it is not for nothing that media execs mutter about a certain tech giant bowling them googlies.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011

When people try googlies on Sandham You can see he will soon understand 'em; With a laugh at their slows He will murmur, "Here goes," And over the railings will land 'em.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman


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