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Re:How HTTPS works by shard on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:31PM (#17956543)
How about googly eyes?
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Re:How HTTPS works by thaumasiotes on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:03AM (#17957296)
The two theories I see for the etymology of "googly eyes" are (1) that the term descends from goggle + -y ( https://www.etymonline.com/word/googly ); or (2) that the term is related to a comic strip character named Barney Google ( https://blog.retroplanet.com/googly-eyes/ ). Neither theory involves a -ly suffix.

They don't really involve the diminutive -y suffix either; that looks more like the adjective-forming -y suffix.

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