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birdwatcher) wrote2009-07-05 07:35 am
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Being unfamiliar with the itinerary of sun and shade in the clearing, he had left his bicycle to endure the blazing beams for at least three hours. Ada mounted it, uttered a yelp of pain, almost fell off, googled, recovered—and the rear tire burst with a comic bang.--В.В.Набоков, Ада (1969)
Оказывается, существует вебсайт с аннотациями Браяна Бойда; объясняется примерно каждое слово в этом романе: http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
Имеем: googled: According to W2, a variant of goggle, “to roll; to shake; to stagger. Obs. exc. Dial. Eng.”, где W2 -- Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam, 1958.