aggle
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish ecla (compare Scottish Gaelic eagal, Irish eagla).
Noun
aggle m (genitive singular aggle, plural agglyn)
- fear
Derived terms
- agglagh
- agglee
Scots
Alternative forms
- aggl
- haggle (Orkney)
Pronunciation
- (Insular) IPA(key): /aɡl/, /ʌɡl/
Noun
aggle (plural aggles)
- (Orkney, Shetland) A mess; a confused or dirty state.
- Eftir da rain dastreen da rigs is in wan aggle o dirt.
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Verb
aggle (third-person singular present aggles, present participle agglin, past aggelt, past participle aggelt)
- (Orkney, Shetland) to soil; defile; dirty
- I wiss du widna aggle dee haands i yun fish brucks.
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- (Orkney, Shetland) to make a mess
Further reading
- “aggle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.