goglet

English

Etymology

From Portuguese gorgoleta. Compare French gargoulette.

Noun

goglet (plural goglets)

1. A jar or vase of porous pottery for keeping water cool by evaporation.
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim:

     […]Hurree Babu, rolling into the balcony to clean his teeth at a goglet.

Alternative forms

• gogglet, gorgolet, gugglet, guglet, gurglet, gurgulet

References

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “goglet”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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