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.
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.
Another possible derivation of this word is the "googly;" a cricket ball that appears as if it will break one way when, in actuality, it breaks in the opposite direction.
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).
Examples of googly eyes
* Cookie Monster (of Sesame Street fame)
* "Darky" iconography; see Blackface
* Corniel the cartoon dog of Watch My Chops
* Bubbles of Trailer Park Boys
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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With the flurry of stuff coming from Google, I've decided to create this blog. With the googly eyes of the web, looking sometimes at different directions at the same time. A million hypotheses present themselves. Can we predict what's next for Google?
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