Google, as in Barney Google, the old comic strip character
Do we have any idea as to the this use of Google?I mean, like, do we know if the cartoonist create it out of thin air or was there some meaning of google around years before the current software...
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Eliza asked a similar question, in the famous made up words thread, about 2 months ago without reply.Also, Wikipedia states, "The strip also inspired the popular 1920s song "Barney Google (With the...
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"Goggle eyes" is old, meaning various things but often more-or-less "big eyes". Around 1900 "google eyes" was used for "goggle eyes"/"big eyes" and also for "goo-goo eyes". I find "google-eyed" from...
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And of course Google is a real surname.
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Not many people know that Francis William Bourdillon originally wrote "The Night has a Googol Eyes", but he altered this when he was criticised for excessive hyperbole.
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We touched on Barney Google and "googly eyes" in this 2003 thread.
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