uggle
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Norn alka (“dirty; defile”).
Verb[edit]
uggle (third-person singular simple present uggles, present participle uggling, simple past and past participle uggled)
- (Shetland, obsolete) To make dirty.
- 1898 August 27, Shetland News:
- Lass, doo'll ugle dy cleen cot, couldna da tooel dü—?
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References[edit]
- Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary[1], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298
- “uggle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.