googly
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Wearing a handmade sock puppet with large googly eyes she found at Walmart, Esquivel read “Snuggle Puppy!” in a high-pitched voice as her teenage daughter recorded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
They also remind him of the late comic actor Marty Feldman, whose googly eyes shot off in different directions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
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
Then Harry sang “Beautiful Dreamer” while Miss Goodacre made googly eyes at him.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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
Ahmed grew in confidence, bounding in, landing dipping leg-breaks and dangerous googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
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
Where until recently the Emerald Isle's saloons echoed to vociferous debate about economic downturns, the recent general election and mass emigration, the talk now is almost exclusively of right-arm spin, leg-breaks and googlies.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 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