Googly vs Goodly - What's the difference?
googly | goodly |
(cricket) A ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
* 1904 , , How We Recovered the Ashes'', quoted in Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI, section 4, page 248:
Of the eyes, bulging.
(archaic) good, pleasing in appearance
* , A Ballad of Death , lines 26–27
(archaic) Quite large; considerable.
(obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
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*:Thenne he sente for the thre knyghtes & they came afore hym / and he cryed hem mercy of that he had done to them / and they forgaf hit hym goodely and he dyed anone / Whanne the kynge was dede / alle the cyte was desmayed and wyst not who myghte be her kynge
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*:Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall.
(obsolete) Excellently.
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As adjectives the difference between googly and goodly
is that googly is of the eyes, bulging while goodly is (archaic) good, pleasing in appearance.As a noun googly
is (cricket) a ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.As an adverb goodly is
(obsolete) in a goodly way; courteously, graciously.googly
English
Noun
(wikipedia googly) (googlies)- can bowl as badly as anyone in the world; but when he gets a length, those slow googlies , as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.
Synonyms
* bosie or bosey * wrong ’unDerived terms
* bowl a googlySee also
* chinaman * cutter * doosra * full toss * inswing * leg break * off-break * outswing * screwball grip * seamer * yorkerAdjective
(er)See also
* googly-eyed * googly eyes * google * googolgoodly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) goodly, goodlich, .Adjective
(er)- ''O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her
- ''Was made a goodly thing
- a goodly sum of money
- walking at a goodly pace