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briggles

briggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 briggles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Briggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of briggle.

Words near briggles in the dictionary

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

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