aggle
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Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish ecla, from Old Irish eclae. Compare Scottish Gaelic eagal and Irish eagla.
Noun
[edit]aggle m (genitive singular aggle, plural agglyn)
- fear
- Ny bee aggle erriu. ― Don't be afraid.
Derived terms
[edit]Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Norwegian alka (“to dirty, defile”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Northern Isles) IPA(key): /aɡl/, /ʌɡl/
Noun
[edit]aggle (plural aggles)
- (Northern Isles) mess; confused or dirty state.
- Eftir da rain dastreen da rigs is in wan aggle o dirt.
- After the yesterday evening rain, the rigs is in a mess of dirt.
Verb
[edit]aggle (third-person singular simple present aggles, present participle agglin, simple past aggled, past participle aggled)
- (Northern Isles) to soil; defile; dirty
- I wiss du widna aggle dee haands i yun fish brucks.
- I wish you would not dirty the hands in those fish left-overs.
- (Northern Isles) to make a mess
Further reading
[edit]- “aggle, v & n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “aggle”, in The Online Scots Dictionary[1]
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