1691–1763. Byrom, Dissection of a Beau’s Head. Those muscles, in English, wherewith a man ogles, When on a fair lady he fixes his goggles.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1821. Pierce Egan, Life in London, p. 241. Rolling your goggles about after all manner of people.
3. in. pl. (common).—Spectacles. For synonyms, see Barnacles.
Verb (colloquial).—Goggle = to roll the eyes; to stare.
1577–87. Holinshed, Description of Ireland, ch. i. They goggle with their eyes hither and thither.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Goggle, to stare.
1820–37. Walpole, Letters, iii., 174. He goggled his eyes.
1880. Millikin, Punch’s Almanack, April. Scissors! don’t they goggle and look blue.
Gogmagog, subs. (colloquial).—A goblin; a monster; a frightful apparition.—Hood.