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.

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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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Eyes: REDIRECT Eye...

Inanimate: REDIRECT Animate (disambiguation)...

Personification: Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person....

Googly eyes related Images and Photos (experimental)

Emergency Googly Eyes Tin	Googly Eye Clock	Angel Eyes (DVD) (Rpkg)	Angel Eyes (DVD)
Eyes Wide Shut	Blue Eyes	Angel Eyes	Snake Eyes
Alien Eyes	Green Eyes	Bright Eyes	Emerald Eyes