Gaggled vs Giggled - What's the difference?
gaggled | giggled |
(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
(giggle)
To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.
A high-pitched, silly laugh.
(informal) Amusement.
As verbs the difference between gaggled and giggled
is that gaggled is (gaggle) while giggled is (giggle).gaggled
English
Verb
(head)gaggle
English
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?
See also
* skein * wedge English collective nounsgiggled
English
Verb
(head)giggle
English
Verb
(giggl)- The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.
Synonyms
* (laugh in a silly way) titter * See alsoDerived terms
* gigglyNoun
(en noun)- We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles .
- The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.