释义 |
misˈguggle, v. Sc. Also -goggle, -grugle. [f. mis-1 8 + guggle, gruggle to handle roughly or clumsily (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).] trans. To handle roughly, maul; to mar, spoil, bungle.
1742R. Forbes Jrnl. in Ajax's Sp., etc. (1755) 33 She bad me had aff my hands, for I misgrugled a' her apron. 1814Scott Wav. xviii, Donald had been misguggled by ane of these doctors about Paris. 1818― Hrt. Midl. viii, Overturning and mishguggling the government and discipline of the kirk. 1825–80Jamieson, To misgoggle, to spoil,..as, ‘He's fairly misgogglit that job’. |