Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

croggle

/ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: crog-gle
IPA: /ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.

Dated; Slang; Transitive verb

verb

To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.

Dated; Intransitive verb; Slang

Example Sentences

"CROGGLE (Grennell) Roughly meaning shocked into momentary physical or mental paralysis; a portmanteau-word, apparently, combining "crushed" and "goggled", and usually passive or reflexive in application."
"Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco."
"Other than croggle at its naïveté, I'm not sure how to respond to this. Making source code public does not increase the number of vulnerabilities, only the awareness of them by the general public."

Etymology

Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.

Usage

Inflected Forms

croggles (present, singular) croggling (participle, present) croggled (participle, past) croggled (past)

Derived Forms

becroggle crogglement

Rhymes With

toggle ogle goggle bogle boggle noggle joggle woggle snoggle becroggle oggle roggle

Questions

How do you pronounce croggle?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/.
What does croggle mean?: To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
Where does croggle come from?: Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.

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