aggle
Manx edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish ecla, from Old Irish eclae. Compare Scottish Gaelic eagal and Irish eagla.
Noun edit
aggle m (genitive singular aggle, plural agglyn)
Derived terms edit
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Compare Norwegian alka (“to dirty, defile”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aggle (plural aggles)
- (Orkney, Shetland) mess; confused or dirty state.
- Eftir da rain dastreen da rigs is in wan aggle o dirt.
- After the yesterday evening rain, the rigs is in a mess of dirt.
Verb edit
aggle (third-person singular simple present aggles, present participle agglin, simple past aggled, past participle aggled)
- (Orkney, Shetland) to soil; defile; dirty
- I wiss du widna aggle dee haands i yun fish brucks.
- I wish you would not dirty the hands in those fish left-overs.
- (Orkney, Shetland) to make a mess
Further reading edit
- “aggle, v & n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “aggle” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary[1], 2016.