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Gaggle vs Daggle - What's the difference?

gaggle | daggle |

As verbs the difference between gaggle and daggle

is that gaggle is to make a noise like a goose; to cackle while daggle is to run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.

As a noun gaggle

is a group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.

gaggle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
  • *
  • Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.
  • * '>citation

    • Verb

    (gaggl)
  • To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • * 1733 , , "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?

    See also

    * skein * wedge English collective nouns

    daggle

    English

    Verb

    (daggl)
  • To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
  • To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray.
    (Webster 1913)