uggle
English
Alternative forms
- aggl, ugle
Etymology
From Norwegian alka (“dirty; defile”).
Verb
uggle (third-person singular simple present uggles, present participle uggling, simple past and past participle uggled)
- (Shetland, obsolete) To make dirty.
- 1898 August 27, Shetland News:
- Lass, doo'll ugle dy cleen cot, couldna da tooel dü—?
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Synonyms
- besmear, besmirch, defile, dirty, smirch, soil, sully; see also Thesaurus:dirty
References
- Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298
- “uggle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Anagrams
- Gelug, Gugel, gugel