different between gaggle vs paggle

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)

1. (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
2. (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)

1. 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

English

Verb

paggle (third-person singular simple present paggles, present participle paggling, simple past and past participle paggled)

1. (obsolete) To hang loosely.
2. (obsolete) To bulge.