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fugles

fugles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fugle.

Meaning of fugle

Verb

fugle (third-person singular simple present fugles, present participle fugling, simple past and past participle fugled)

  1. (archaic, colloquial) To manoeuvre, jiggle or manipulate.
    • wooden arms with elbow-joints are jerking and fugling in the air1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book V (Terror the Order of the Day), page 338

Questions about fugles

What is fugles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fugles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fugle.

Words near fugles in the dictionary

  1. Fuglede's conjecture
  2. fugleman
  3. fuglemen
  4. fugler
  5. fuglers
  6. fugles
  7. fuglier
  8. fuglies
  9. fugliest
  10. fugliness
  11. fugling

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