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arsle

arsle is the alternative form of assle.

Meaning of assle

Verb

assle (third-person singular simple present assles, present participle assling, simple past and past participle assled)

  1. (intransitive) To sit, move, or scoot about on one's buttocks; loaf; wander idly around; waste time.
    • "May all her public servants arsle around like buss-eyed catawumpuses ! That's what I say. Just like they'll do tomorrow, while we set here and laugh at 'em."1951, Constance Noyes Robertson, The Golden Circle

Forms of arsle

third-person singular presentarsles
present participlearsling
past participlearsled
pastarsled

Origin of arsle

From arse + -le.

Questions about arsle

What is arsle the alternative form of?
Arsle is the alternative form of assle.

Words near arsle in the dictionary

  1. Arslanian
  2. Arslanians
  3. Arslans
  4. Arslanyan
  5. Arslanyans
  6. arsle
  7. arsled
  8. arsles
  9. arslikhan
  10. arsling
  11. arsmart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arsle (page history and authors); assle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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