croggle
English
Etymology
Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡəl
Verb
croggle (third-person singular simple present croggles, present participle croggling, simple past and past participle croggled)
- (transitive, dated, fandom slang) To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
- 1959, Eney, Richard "Dick" Harris, Fancyclopedia II, Croggle:
- 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.
- 1988, McCrumb, Sharyn, Bimbos of the Death Sun:
- Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.
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- (intransitive, dated, fandom slang) To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.
- 2000, Schneier, Bruce, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, →ISBN:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- becroggle
- crogglement
References
- “croggle” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 29.
- croggle v. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project
Anagrams
- clogger