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goggle box

noun

Etymology

From goggle (“to stare at”) + box.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. formed as goggle box — “goggle + box”

Definitions

  1. A television set.

    • The goggle box became my own private giggle box, from out of which came the likes of Richard ‘Mr Pastry’ Hearne, Charlie Drake and I Love Lucy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for goggle box. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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