be-goggled

See also: begoggled

English

Adjective

be-goggled (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of begoggled
   • 1883 April 25, “Legislation Affecting Women”, in Western Mail, number 4353, Cardiff, page 2, column 7:

     For our own part we cannot but think that these legislative protections have a most demoralising tendency, and that the oftener they are resorted to the more feeble will the woman’s sense of self-reliance and her confidence in her own resources become, and the farther off, in consequence, will be that millennium of her bemittened and be-goggled champion when male and female shall stand on an equal footing in everything.

   • 2016 March 20, Devin Walsh, “Asheville beer jobs provide opportunities”, in Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, N.C., page 1E:

     While your be-goggled CNC-machine-operating buddy is punching numbers and watching lasers work, you’re heaving 50-pound bags of grain around a storehouse, perfecting the art of the keg roll, stirring a goupy ton or two of hot, fragrant mash, and raking the wet mounds of spent grain into enormous trashcans.

   • 2016 June 20, Zach Buchanan, “Reed’s goggles only for sight”, in The Courier-Journal, page 5C, column 1:

     [Cody] Reed’s be-goggled look does give him a panache of intimidation, but the 23-year-old has never augmented that with any show of intentional show of wildness.