Goggles are sealed eye protection worn against dust, sparks, water or wind. Safety goggles, swimming goggles, put your goggles on.
The seal round the eye is what distinguishes them from glasses. They are always plural — a pair of goggles — and there is no singular. Ski goggles, welding goggles and laboratory goggles are the common kinds, each with a different lens. Note beer goggles, an informal phrase for lowered standards after drinking; and goggle as a verb, meaning to stare with wide eyes.
1noungogglesSealed eye protection worn against dust, sparks or water.
“The goggles fogged up within about a minute.”
goggles is eye protection.
The verb goggle, meaning to stare, is medieval and probably imitative of the movement of the eyes. The eye protectors were named for the bulging look they give, so the word describes the wearer rather than the object.
Probably from goggle, from the appearance it gives the wearer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA