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> Chandler played cricket when he was young, and he may have been influenced by the term “google” which is applied to balls which break or swerve. I think the

> Chandler played cricket when he was young, and he may have been influenced by the term “google” which is applied to balls which break or swerve. I think the author means “googly”

emmelaich 2y ago
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googly
qup 2y ago
There's a documentary called Mountain Talk and the folks in the Appalachians used an adjective "si-goggling" which meant out of square, crooked. Lots of similarities there, too.
fundad 2y ago
I'm old enough to recall my youth glueing irises loosely encased in occipital domes onto craft projects. The kids today call them googly eyes.
- IggleSniggle 2y ago
  In my pre-Google youth we also called them googly eyes and I honestly believed that was why Google picked that name. I always imagined the two OOs as eyes, sort of like amazons a->z arrow is a smile. See also the campfire classic "going on a bear hunt" and the line "two big googly eyes..."