aggle
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish ecla (compare Scottish Gaelic eagal, Irish eagla).
Noun
aggle m (genitive singular aggle, plural agglyn)
Derived terms
Scots
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Noun
aggle (plural aggles)
- (Northern Isles) A mess; a confused or dirty state.
- Eftir da rain dastreen da rigs is in wan aggle o dirt.
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Verb
aggle (third-person singular simple present aggles, present participle agglin, simple past aggelt, past participle aggelt)
- (Northern Isles) to soil; defile; dirty
- I wiss du widna aggle dee haands i yun fish brucks.
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- (Northern Isles) to make a mess
Further reading
- “aggle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “aggle”, in The Online Scots Dictionary[1]