See gaggle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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}
],
"hyphenation": [
"gag‧gle"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "skein"
},
{
"word": "wedge"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Geese do gaggle",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1733, Jonathan Swift, \"A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan\", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II)",
"text": "When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a noise like a goose; to cackle."
],
"links": [
[
"goose",
"goose"
],
[
"cackle",
"cackle"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:verb"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡæɡl̩/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-gaggle.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/En-us-gaggle.ogg/En-us-gaggle.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/En-us-gaggle.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æɡəl"
}
],
"word": "gaggle"
}
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