goggle-eye Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait
    big-eyed scad; bigeye scad; Selar crumenophthalmus.

WordNet

Gog"gle-eye` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidæ, esp. Chænobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes. (b) The goggler.

Webster 1913