Daggled vs Gaggled - What's the difference?
daggled | gaggled |
(daggle)
To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
* Alexander Pope
To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
* Sir Walter Scott
(gaggle)
A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
*
Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.
* '>citation
To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
* 1733 , , "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in
As verbs the difference between daggled and gaggled
is that daggled is (daggle) while gaggled is (gaggle).daggled
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Verb
(head)daggle
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Verb
(daggl)- Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
- The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.
gaggled
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Verb
(head)gaggle
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(gaggl)- (Francis Bacon)
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?