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gag⋅gle
[gag-uh
l]
verb, -gled, -gling, noun –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to cackle. |
–noun
| 2. | a flock of geese when not flying. Compare skein. |
| 3. | an often noisy or disorderly group or gathering: a politician followed by a gaggle of supporters. |
| 4. | an assortment of related things. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME gagelen (v.), gagel (n.); of imit. orig.
1350–1400; ME gagelen (v.), gagel (n.); of imit. orig.

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gag·gle (gāg'əl) n.
[Middle English gagel, from gagelen, to cackle, probably of imitative origin.] |
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Gaggle
Gag"gle\, n. [Cf. Gaggle v. i.] (Zo["o]l.) A flock of wild geese. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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gaggle
c.1470, gagyll, with ref. to both geese and women. Barnhardt says possibly from O.N. gagl "goose;" OED calls it "one of the many artificial terms invented in the 15th c. as distinctive collectives referring to particular animals or classes of persons." Possibly of imitative origin (cf. Du. gagelen "to chatter;" M.E. gaggle "to cackle," used of geese, attested from 1399).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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