Etymology Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).
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Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:
Have fun and keep googling!1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 09 Oct 1999:
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Willow: Have you googled her yet? Xander: Willow! She's 17! Willow: It's a search engine.2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon):
Google it.2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez):
Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021, page A-19: