The Evolving English WordBank chronicles and preserves dialect

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neilmac
neilmac
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Fascinating Mar 17, 2017

"Puggle" in Scotland means to tire (''I'm fair puggled today'' = I am really tired today). I'm unsure of the etymology, but if it is used elsewhere to mean poke about, I'd hazard a guess that it may originally have been scatological/sexual in nature.

 


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