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giffle

giffle verb: to be restless or fidgety.

Verb

giffle (third-person singular simple present giffles, present participle giffling, simple past and past participle giffled)

  1. (East-Anglia) to be restless or fidgety
    • […]sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […][1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147

Forms of giffle

third-person singular presentgiffles
present participlegiffling
past participlegiffled
pastgiffled

Origin of giffle

From gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) by metathesis.

Questions about giffle

What does giffle mean?
Giffle means to be restless or fidgety.
What part of speech is giffle?
Giffle is a verb.
What is the past tense of giffle?
The past tense of giffle is giffled.

Words near giffle in the dictionary

  1. Giffens
  2. giffies
  3. Giffin
  4. giffing
  5. Giffins
  6. giffle
  7. giffle-gaffle
  8. Giffnock
  9. Gifford
  10. Giffords
  11. giffy

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