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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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gaggled
English
Verb
gaggled
- simple past tense and past participle of gaggle
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