"seckle" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: seckles [present, singular, third-person], seckling [participle, present], seckled [participle, past], seckled [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole sekkle, from English settle. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|jam|sekkle}} Borrowed from Jamaican Creole sekkle, {{der|en|en|settle}} English settle Head templates: {{en-verb}} seckle (third-person singular simple present seckles, present participle seckling, simple past and past participle seckled)
  1. (intransitive, transitive, African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) To settle down, relax. Tags: Multicultural-London-English, intransitive, slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-seckle-en-verb-mx6RF3Fm Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms borrowed back into English, Multicultural London English, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 17 4 3 4 3 68 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 3 3 3 3 64

Inflected forms

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