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单词 gaggle
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gagglen.

/ˈɡaɡ(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English–1800s gagle, Middle English–1500s gagyll, 1500s– gaggle.
Etymology: < gaggle v.
1.
a. A flock (of geese); also derisively, a company (of women).One of the many artificial terms invented in the 15th cent. as distinctive collectives referring to particular animals or classes of persons; but unlike most of the others, it seems to have been actually adopted in use.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection
rabblea1398
hotchpotc1405
hotchpotchc1410
mishmashc1475
gaggle?1478
chaos?1550
humble-jumble1550
huddle1587
wilderness1594
lurry1607
hatterc1626
farragoa1637
bumble1648
higgledy-piggledy1659
jumble1661
clutter1666
hugger-mugger1674
litter1730
imbroglio1753
confusion1791
cludder1801
hurrah's nest1829
hotter1834
welter1857
muddle1863
splatter1895
shamble1926
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > group of
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gaggle?1478
lag1624
?1478 Lydgate's Horse, Goose & Sheep (Caxton) (1822) 30 A gagyll of ghees A gagyll of women.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xxx. 338 A shoale of goslings, or (as they saie) a gaggle of geese.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. A Gagle of geys, a flock of Geese.
1827 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 309 A gaggle of more than average chattering women.
1882 R. Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Ireland v That last tempting gaggle of Brent Geese.
b. Also transferred, a group of people or things, esp. a disorderly assemblage; spec. (slang) a group of aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft > a group of aircraft
fleet1881
gaggle1946
1946 G. Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead 206 We started off first in squadrons, then in wings and finally in a sort of formation known as a group gaggle, meaning a flock of geese.
1946 E. C. Cheesman Brief Glory vi. 73 Ferry pilots had to fly in ‘gaggles’ to make it easier for the Observer Corps.
1956 J. E. Johnson Wing Leader i. 13 We curved across Berlin, sparred cautiously with large gaggles of Russian fighters.
1966 Listener 8 Sept. 354/1 There is hardly a modern skyscraper in midtown that does not have its gaggle of sightseers.
1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Mar. 14/3 A gaggle of sparsely inhabited islands.
2. Chatter, gabble.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter
chirma800
clappingc1386
glavera1400
clapa1420
clackc1440
blabc1460
clattera1500
babble?a1525
babblery1532
pratery1533
clitter-clatter1535
by-talk?1551
prattle1555
prittle-prattle1556
twittle-twattle1565
cacquet1567
prate?1574
prattlement1579
babblement1595
gibble-gabble1600
gabble1602
twattlea1639
tolutiloquence1656
pratement1657
gaggle1668
leden1674
cackle1676
twit-twat1677
clash1685
chit-chat1710
chatter-chitter1711
chitter-chatter1712
palavering1732
hubble-bubble1735
palaver1748
rattle1748
gum1751
mag1778
gabber1780
gammon1781
gash1787
chattery1789
gabber1792
whitter-whatter1805
yabble1808
clacket1812
talky-talky1812
potter1818
yatter1827
blue streak1830
gabblement1831
psilologya1834
chin-music1834
patter1841
jaw1842
chatter1851
brabble1861
tongue-work1866
yacker1882
talkee1885
chelp1891
chattermag1895
whitter1897
burble1898
yap1907
clatfart1913
jive1928
logorrhœa1935
waffle1937
yackety-yacking1953
yack1958
yackety-yack1958
motormouth1976
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 29 A Consort of loud and tedious Talkers, that Tired and Deafn'd the Company with their shrill and restless Gaggle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

gagglev.

/ˈɡaɡ(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English gagul, Middle English–1600s gagle, (Middle English gagelyn, 1500s gagyll), 1500s– gaggle.
Etymology: Probably an onomatopoeic formation (with frequentative suffix) on the syllable gag (gag-gag ) often used to imitate the cry of the goose. Compare gabble v., cackle v.1A similar imitation of the same sound appears as the root of Old Celtic *gegdâ, Irish geadh, Welsh gwydd, goose, and of Old Norse gagl goose. Compare also modern Icelandic gagga to gaggle.
1. intransitive. Of geese: To cackle; see cackle v.1 1. Also with forth.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of goose)
cacklec1230
gaggle1399
keak1545
gabble1712
honk1813
cank1879
honk-honk1896
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iii. 101 Þey gaglide fforth on the grene, ffor they greved were.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 184/2 Gagelyn, or cryyn as gees, clingo.
a1483 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 86 The goos gagult ever more, the gam was better to here.
1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xiiiv Thys beggers..gageleth agayn vppon the same mater.
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket ii. 58 These are..the Geese in the Capitall, to gaggle at Statesmen in the Common-wealth.
1744 Claridge's Shepherd of Banbury's Rules (new ed.) 40 If geese gaggle more than usual, these are all signs of rain.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxiv, in Writings I. 245 [He] gave no ear to his own geese gaggling near his barn.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Mar. 4/2 Every bird gaggling his loudest.
quasi-transitive.1645 R. Overton Sacred Decretall 3 Geese and Ganders..hisse and gaggle him out of his Five pestilent senses.
2. transferred and figurative. To make a noise like geese; to talk volubly, to chatter. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)]
to multiply words1340
gagglea1556
glib1596
to run on?c1663
gasha1774
to roll on1861
pan1871
rabbit and pork1949
motormouth1983
a1556 R. Chancellor in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1598) I. 241 But when the Priest is at seruice no man sitteth, but gagle and ducke like so many Geese.
1630 J. Taylor Goose in Wks. i. 105/1 How grauely they from place to place will waggle And how (like Gossips) freely will they gaggle.
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 333 They gaggle all at a time; as if it was for a Wager, who should make the greatest Noise.
3. transitive. To utter like a goose; to express with gaggling or cackling; to babble, prattle. Also with out. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)]
cacklec1230
chattera1250
clapc1315
jangle1377
blabberc1380
trattlea1425
pratea1475
chat1483
prattlea1500
prittle-prattlea1555
gabble1566
blatter?1567
gaggle1577
clacket1579
knap1581
prittle1583
clack1590
volley1591
tattle1593
prabble1603
out-babble1649
garrulate1656
gabber?1661
chime1697
spiel1904
chitter-chatter1928
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I It is not expedient, that the Irishe tongue shoulde be so vniuersally gagled in the English pale.
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 2 We need not fear..that she will gaggle any Treason.
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 25 Had my Goose gagled out such a..doctrine [etc.].
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xxxi. 74 A Countrey man..answer'd, that he thought the Geese about Oxford did gaggle Greek.

Derivatives

ˈgaggler n. one who gaggles, a goose.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose)
gooseOE
Roger1567
foreman1622
gaggler1624
Tib of the butterya1640
goosey-gandera1816
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? To Rdr. As meere a gaggler as euer grased vpon a greene.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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