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gaggle
English
Etymology
From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æ?l?/
- Rhymes: -æ??l
- Hyphenation: gag?gle
Noun
gaggle (plural gaggles)
- (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
- (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things.
- Synonym: bunch
Derived terms
- press gaggle
Translations
Verb
gaggle (third-person singular simple present gaggles, present participle gaggling, simple past and past participle gaggled)
- To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
- Geese do gaggle
- 1733, Jonathan Swift, "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II):
- When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?
Translations
See also
- skein
- wedge
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daggle
English
Etymology
dag +? -le
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?dæ??l/
Verb
daggle (third-person singular simple present daggles, present participle daggling, simple past and past participle daggled)
- (intransitive) To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
- (transitive) To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
Anagrams
- lagged
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