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croggling

croggling is the present participle and gerund of croggle.

Meaning of croggle

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
  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

Questions about croggling

What is croggling the present participle and gerund of?
Croggling is the present participle and gerund of croggle.

Words near croggling in the dictionary

  1. croggies
  2. croggle
  3. croggled
  4. crogglement
  5. croggles
  6. croggling
  7. croggy
  8. Croghan
  9. Croghans
  10. Crohn
  11. Crohn's

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