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Etymology

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From gaggle +‎ -y.

Adjective

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gaggly (comparative more gaggly, superlative most gaggly)

  1. (informal) Tending to form a gaggle or crowd.
    Synonym: gregarious
    • 2009, Serena Robar, Giving Up the V, page 68:
      I giggled. Giggled! Like some giggly, gaggly girl. That was so not me.
    • 2017, P. T. Phronk, Of Moons and Monsters:
      The gaggles of housewives were less gaggly, keeping an unusual distance from each other as they picked up groceries.
    • 2019, Scott Russell Sanders, The Engineer of Beasts, page 116:
      Early one Saturday morning, a gaggly line of children stretched away behind the fix-it van.