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fugling

fugling is the present participle and gerund 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 fugling

What is fugling the present participle and gerund of?
Fugling is the present participle and gerund of fugle.

Words near fugling in the dictionary

  1. fugles
  2. fuglier
  3. fuglies
  4. fugliest
  5. fugliness
  6. fugling
  7. fugly
  8. fugma
  9. fugoid
  10. fugoids
  11. Fugou

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