googly

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von googly im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

(sıfat) aldatıcı

{s} aldatıcı

falsolu giden top

Relevante Übersetzungen

protruding, sticking out, bulging

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Englisch - Englisch

Definition von googly im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

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

Bosanquet 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.

Of the eyes, bulging

{i} ball that swerves (Cricket)

a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way

{s} protruding, sticking out, bulging

When a cricketer bowls a googly, he or she spins the ball and makes it bounce in a different direction from the direction that the batsman is expecting

Relevante Übersetzungen

googly eyes

Bulging eyes on a toy, doll, etc., usually with moving pupils

bowl a googly

to surprise (someone); to introduce (to someone) something unexpected, underhand or requiring a quick reaction or correction

Fred bowled me a googly when he asked me to explain those statistics in the meeting.

A googly

bosey

googlies

plural of googly

Silbentrennung

goog·ly

Synonyme

bosie, bosey, wrong 'un

Etymologie

[ 'gü-glE-"Id ] (adjective.) 1926. The etymology is uncertain but it is linked to Bernard Bosanquet, who developed such a delivery. It may be important that the word was first reported during one of his New Zealand matches.