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briggled

briggled is the simple past and past participle of briggle.

Meaning of briggle

Verb

briggle (third-person singular simple present briggles, present participle briggling, simple past and past participle briggled)

  1. (US, dialectal, intransitive, rare) To potter around; friggle; fiddle.
    • Some of the boys called it “a h—l of a time.” Such “briggling about” was almost unpardonable.1886, Wm. Kepler, chapter XVII, in History of the three months' and three years' service from April 16th, 1861, to June 22d, 1864, of the Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the war for the...

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What is briggled the simple past and past participle of?
Briggled is the simple past and past participle of briggle.

Words near briggled in the dictionary

  1. Brigettines
  2. Brigg
  3. brigge
  4. brigges
  5. briggle
  6. briggled
  7. briggles
  8. briggling
  9. Briggs
  10. Briggs logarithm
  11. Briggs logarithms

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