googly

«googly» in Mova's school dictionary: big round eyes that stick out, or the toy plastic eyes… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (googly — informal, of eyes); noun (a googly, googlies — cricket)

meaning for a pupil

1) Googly eyes are big round eyes that stick out, or the toy plastic eyes with a loose black dot that wobbles. tree →

2) In cricket, a googly is a tricky ball bowled by a spin bowler that turns the opposite way from what the batter expects. tree →

sense in the lessons

In arts and crafts, children stick googly eyes on puppets, rocks and paper monsters. In cricket, played in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, a googly is a famous trick ball for fooling the batter. In stories googly eyes make a character look silly or surprised.

examples

• We stuck googly eyes on our sock puppets. tree →
• The monster in the picture had huge googly eyes. tree →
• The spin bowler fooled the batter with a googly. tree →
• My little brother made a rock pet with two googly eyes. tree →
• The batter expected the ball to turn left, but it was a googly. tree →
• The frog's eyes looked all googly when it jumped. tree →

note

Informal. «Googly eyes» (plural) in crafts; «a googly» (countable) in cricket, plural googlies. Not related to the search engine Google.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «googly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.