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croggle

/ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/

croggle verb: to shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.

Verb

croggle (third-person singular simple present croggles, present participle croggling, simple past and past participle croggled)

  1. (dated, slang, transitive) To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
    • 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.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Croggle
    • Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun
  2. (dated, intransitive, slang) To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.
    • 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.2000, Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, →ISBN

croggle meaning in Bengali

croggle in Bengali

বিস্মিত করা, চমকে দেওয়া, এই ঢঙে হতবাক, বিস্মিত হওয়া

Forms of croggle

third-person singular presentcroggles
present participlecroggling
past participlecroggled
pastcroggled

Origin of croggle

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

Words formed from croggle

Words that rhyme with croggle

Questions about croggle

What does croggle mean?
Croggle means to shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
What is croggle in Bengali?
Croggle in Bengali is বিস্মিত করা, চমকে দেওয়া, এই ঢঙে হতবাক. See Croggle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is croggle?
Croggle is a verb.
How do you pronounce croggle?
Croggle is pronounced /ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/.
What is the past tense of croggle?
The past tense of croggle is croggled.

Words near croggle in the dictionary

  1. crofts
  2. croggan
  3. croggans
  4. croggie
  5. croggies
  6. croggle
  7. croggled
  8. crogglement
  9. croggles
  10. croggling
  11. croggy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: croggle (page history and authors); croggle (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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