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Croggies vs Croggles - What's the difference?

croggies | croggles |

As a noun croggies

is plural of croggy.

As a verb croggles is

third-person singular of croggle.

croggies

English

Noun

(head)

    • croggles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (croggle)

    • croggle

    English

    Verb

    (croggl)
  • (dated, fandom slang) To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/charlie.html , section = Croggle , passage = CROGGLE (Grennell)    Roughly meaning shocked into momentary physical or mental paralysis; a portmanteau-word, apparently, combining "crushed" and "goggled", and usually passive or reflexive in application. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1988 , first = Sharyn , last = McCrumb , authorlink = Sharyn McCrumb , title = , passage = Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2000 , first = Bruce , last = Schneier , authorlink = Bruce Schneier , title = Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World , isbn = 9780471253112 , passage = Other than croggle at its naïveté, I'm not sure how to respond to this. Making source code public does not increase the number of vulnerabilities, only the awareness of them by the general public. }}

    Derived terms

    * becroggle * crogglement

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