googly
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
googly (plural googlies)
- (cricket) A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
- 1904, P. F. Warner, How We Recovered the Ashes, quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, section 4, page 248:
- Bosanquet can bowl as badly as anyone in the world; but when he gets a length, those slow googlies, as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.
- 1904, P. F. Warner, How We Recovered the Ashes, quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, section 4, page 248:
googly (comparative googlier, superlative googliest)
- (of the eyes) Bulging.
- (usually, of eyes, sometimes, of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.
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