Picking up Jimmy's reference to Googly as Australian slang, there are a couple of possibilities. In Australia.the ‘Chinaman’ is.the left-hander's googly.Ĭan anyone supply any further clue to the origin of either word, please? 32 In.Yorkshire, the ‘Chinaman’ is regarded as the lefthand bowler's off-break. Fingleton Ashes crown Year 46 Australians call it bosie after Bosanquet.Englishmen call it the google, or googly.ġ955 K. 22 It was at this time that I learned to bowl the ‘bosie’ or ‘googly’-an off-break with a leg-break action.ġ954 J.
Cardus Days in Sun 48 Hirst cultivated the swerve and Bosanquet the ‘googly’.ġ930 C.
74 The ‘googly’ or ‘Bosie ball’ as it was afterwards christened in Australia.ġ924 N. 14/2 The ‘googly’ is merely the American service at lawn-tennis introduced into cricket.ġ920 E. Warner How we recovered Ashes 106 Bosanquet.can bowl as badly as anyone in the world, but, when he gets a length, those slow ‘googlies’, as the Australian papers call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.ġ909 P. 29 You must persuade that Bosanquet of yours to practise.those funny ‘googlies’ of his.ġ904 P. A ball which breaks from the off, though bowled with apparent leg-break action.ġ903 C. It is interesting because of the derived verb 'to google', which nowadays has acquired an entirely different meaning.Ī. However one responder to an earlier question suggests it is of Indian origin.Īs regards googly, the OED says 'origin unknown'. It does not in fact mention etymology of the cricket sense of gully, which has led me to infer that it is from the ordinary meaning of gully, i.e. The OED supplies no clue to the origin of either gully or googly.
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