croggle
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/
Definition of croggle
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(dated, slang, transitive)To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
“CROGGLE (Grennell) Roughly meaning shocked into momentary physical or mental paralysis; a portmanteau-word, apparently, combining "crushed" and "goggled", and usually passive or reflexive in application.”
“Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.”
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verb
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(dated, slang, transitive)To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
“CROGGLE (Grennell) Roughly meaning shocked into momentary physical or mental paralysis; a portmanteau-word, apparently, combining "crushed" and "goggled", and usually passive or reflexive in application.”
“Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.”
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(dated, intransitive, slang)To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.
“Other than croggle at its naïveté, I'm not sure how to respond to this. Making source code public does not increase the number of vulnerabilities, only the awareness of them by the general public.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.
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