"broggle" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: broggles [present, singular, third-person], broggling [participle, present], broggled [participle, past], broggled [past]
Etymology: A derivative of dialectal English brog (“sniggle, fish with a brog”), equivalent to brog + -le. Compare brog (noun). Etymology templates: {{m|en|brog||sniggle, fish with a brog}} brog (“sniggle, fish with a brog”), {{suffix|en|brog|le}} brog + -le, {{m|en|brog|pos=n}} brog (noun) Head templates: {{en-verb}} broggle (third-person singular simple present broggles, present participle broggling, simple past and past participle broggled)
  1. (UK, dialect) To sniggle, or fish with a brog. Tags: UK, dialectal Categories (topical): Fishing
    Sense id: en-broggle-en-verb-vr9nWBC2 Disambiguation of Fishing: 52 48 Categories (other): British English
  2. (dialectal) To poke around, especially poke around in a hole with a stick. Tags: dialectal Categories (topical): Fishing
    Sense id: en-broggle-en-verb-SPnNW678 Disambiguation of Fishing: 52 48 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -le Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 72 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -le: 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: braggle

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