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
Shakeel eventually miscued Atkinson to mid-wicket before last man Zahid Mahmood was befuddled by an Ahmed googly.
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
Ahmed grew in confidence, bounding in, landing dipping leg-breaks and dangerous googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
He was bowling googlies, flippers and sliders before the age of 10.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2022
“I’ll never bowl googlies again, never deliver a chinaman to a left-hander.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2017
It's hard, well hard, serving us a diet of beamers, googlies and curve balls while we try and guard our stumps with a mivvi.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
He knew now that he couldn't bowl googlies at all: on the house pitches it depended on the lie of the land which way the ball broke.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
