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google

See also: Google and googlé

English

WOTD – 4 April 2022

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Back-formation from googly[1] + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (cricket)

  1. (transitive) 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”).
  2. (intransitive)
    1. Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
    2. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
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Etymology 2

 
A screenshot of the Google Search home page.

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).[2][3]

Noun

google (plural googles) (Internet, informal)

  1. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
    • 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:
      Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.
  2. (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
    Synonyms: Google hit, ghit
    Hypernyms: hit, result
    The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
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Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled) (Internet)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
      Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
    2. (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
      I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
  2. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
    His name googles.
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Etymology 3

See googol.

Numeral

google

  1. Misspelling of googol.

References

  1. ^ “google, v.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2018.
  2. ^ “Google, v.2”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
  3. ^ “google, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

From Google, from English google (the verb).

Verb

google

  1. to google; to search on an Internet search engine, especially Google

Conjugation

Conjugation of google
Active Passive
Infinitive google googles
Present tense googler googles
Past tense googlede googledes
Imperative googl -
Participle
Present googlende
Past googlet
Gerund googlen

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Dutch

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googlen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
    4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

French

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
    3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

google (present tense googlar, past tense googla, past participle googla, passive infinitive googlast, present participle googlande, imperative google/googl)

  1. Alternative form of googla

Portuguese

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googlar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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