Googly eyes

Googly eyes are large, bulging or rolling eyes. In googly-eyed (or goggle-eyed) toys, the eyes traditionally are composed of a clear, hard-plastic shell, with a smaller, black plastic disk trapped within. The inner black disk is allowed to move freely within the larger clear plastic shell, which makes the eyes appear to move. Googly eyes are often glued to inanimate objects for the purposes of personification, often with silly results.

Related Topics:
Eyes - Glued - Inanimate - Personification

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The term is probably a variation on "goo goo eyes", denoting the wide-eyed, innocent look of a baby, whose early "speech" consists merely of sounds such as "goo goo". That term is also used to describe the look and behavior of people who are in love.

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The term was also the source of an aptly-named comic strip character named Barney Google. The character in turn inspired a song called Barney Google (With His Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes).

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