gaggle
[gag-uh l]
verb (used without object), gag·gled, gag·gling.
to cackle.
noun
a flock of geese when not flying.Compare skein.
an often noisy or disorderly group or gathering: a politician followed by a gaggle of supporters.
an assortment of related things.
Origin of gaggle
1350–1400; Middle English gagelen (v.), gagel (noun); of imitative orig.
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Related Words for gaggle
series, array, lot, collection, batch, throng, horde, group, sellout, people, crew, congregation, mass, party, press, mob, circle, pack, brood, legionExamples from the Web for gaggle
Contemporary Examples of gaggle
Growing up in Wellsville, New York, Beck was the middle child in a gaggle of sisters and a brother.
We met with a gaggle of foreign ministers for hours over days.
A gaggle of adolescent dragons intent on flame-broiling every goat in Meereen.
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May 12, 2014
You name it, we went there, along with a gaggle of individuals who each had some kind of purpose.
A gaggle of party faithful across the country will have six years in office to cut their teeth.
Historical Examples of gaggle
Then, with a clang of wings and a chorus of shrill quacks, a gaggle of wild duck got up and sped away into the dark.
The City in the CloudsC. Ranger Gull
He hears the gaggle of geese, the trumpetings of wild swans, and the cry of the curlew as it hovers over the lights.
Poachers and PoachingJohn Watson
gaggle
verb
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Word Origin for gaggle
C14: of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse gagl gosling, Dutch gaggelen to cackle, all of imitative origin
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