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Rabble vs Gaggle - What's the difference?

rabble | gaggle |

As nouns the difference between rabble and gaggle

is that rabble is a mob; a disorderly crowd while gaggle is a group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.

As a verb gaggle is

to make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

rabble

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mob; a disorderly crowd.
  • The mass of common people; the lowest class of people.
  • Synonyms

    * riffraff

    Derived terms

    * rabble rouser

    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