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
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
Rizwan was lbw sweeping, Salman Ali Agha trapped on the back leg and Aamer Jamal failed to pick a googly that he chopped on to his stumps.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
“One minute, you’re on a date with Ell, and the next you’re over here making googly eyes at this lothario!”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
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
Admittedly, few who speak of them know what right-arm spin, leg-breaks or googlies are, but that's irrelevant.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2011
Ultimately, he fixed upon the bowling of googlies.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
