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# googly

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

«googly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Googly eyes are big round eyes that stick out, or the toy plastic eyes with a loose black dot that wobbles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#m1)
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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#x1)
- The monster in the picture had huge googly eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#x2)
- The spin bowler fooled the batter with a googly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#x3)
- My little brother made a rock pet with two googly eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#x4)
- The batter expected the ball to turn left, but it was a googly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#x5)
- The frog's eyes looked all googly when it jumped. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «googly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/googly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«googly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/googly.html) on Mova free.