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gaggling

gaggling is the present participle and gerund of gaggle.

Meaning of gaggle

Verb

gaggle (third-person singular simple present gaggles, present participle gaggling, simple past and past participle gaggled)

  1. To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
    • Geese do gaggle1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

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Noun

gaggling (plural gagglings)

  1. The cackling sound of a goose.
    • […] gold teeth, jewelry, and other belongings of the murdered were sorted out before dispatch to the Reich, and where several hundred geese not only provided meat for the SS-men, but with their gagglings also helped to drown the terrible cries […]1966, Jewish Social Studies, volume 28, page 20

Forms of gaggling

pluralgagglings

Questions about gaggling

What does gaggling mean?
Gaggling means the cackling sound of a goose.
What is gaggling the present participle and gerund of?
Gaggling is the present participle and gerund of gaggle.
What part of speech is gaggling?
Gaggling is a noun.
What is the plural of gaggling?
The plural of gaggling is gagglings.

Words near gaggling in the dictionary

  1. gaggle
  2. gaggled
  3. gaggler
  4. gagglers
  5. gaggles
  6. gaggling
  7. gagglings
  8. gaggly
  9. gaggy
  10. gagillion
  11. gagillions

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