Gaggle vs Zebra - What's the difference?
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A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
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Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.
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To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
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Any of three species of genus Equus'': ''E. grevyi]]'', '''', or ''[[Equus zebra, E. zebra , all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
(sports, slang) A referee.
(medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.")
(vulgar, pejorative, slang) A bi-racial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.
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As nouns the difference between gaggle and zebra
is that gaggle is a group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water while zebra is any of three species of genus Equus: E. grevyi, E. quagga, or E. zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.As a verb gaggle
is to make a noise like a goose; to cackle.gaggle
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(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?