guddle

American  

[guhd-l] / ˈgʌd l /

verb (used with object)

guddled, guddling

1. to catch (fish) by groping with the hands, as under rocks or along a riverbank.

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verb (used without object)

guddled, guddling

1. to grope for fish under stones, along a riverbank, etc.

noun

1. Informal. a muddled affair; mix-up; confusion.

guddle British  

/ ˈɡʌdəl /

verb

1. to catch (fish) by groping with the hands under the banks or stones of a stream

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noun

1. a muddle; confusion

Etymology

Origin of guddle

First recorded in 1810–20; of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

guddle guddled guddling

The Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee described the draft clauses for a new Scotland Bill as a "bit of a guddle".

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2015

I'se no gaun a fit till I hae showed ye baith what it is to guddle.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He micht come up here an' guddle for paddocks.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

You guddle troot!" he cried scornfully, "I wad admire to see ye!

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

A fish, called also numscull, for allowing itself to be guddled.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

In a minute he came to the edge of the glen in which Andra Kissock had guddled the trouts.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

If ye have to rowt, ye can rowt amang the kye; and the maist feck of the caapital punishment ye’re like to come across’ll be guddling trouts.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

If ye have to rowt, ye can rowt amang the kye; and the maist feck of the caapital punishmeiit ye're like to come across'll be guddling trouts.

From Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He would not have dared to speak to Ralph on any other occasion, but guddling, like curling, loosens the tongue.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He was a round-cheeked boy again, smothering his kitten in his pinafore, prattling of Red Riding Hood by his school-mistress's knee, and guddling in the brook for minnows.

From Better Dead by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

He was guddling for trout," shouted Jock and Sandy in one breath; "and the hole was deep.

From The Scotch Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch