fugle

English

Etymology

Back-formation from fugleman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːɡəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Homophone: fugal

Verb

fugle (third-person singular simple present fugles, present participle fugling, simple past and past participle fugled)

1. (colloquial) To manoeuvre; to move around.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book V (Terror the Order of the Day), page 338:

     wooden arms with elbow-joints are jerking and fugling in the air

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fugle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Guelf

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuːlə/, [ˈfuːlə]

Noun

fugle c

1. indefinite plural of fugl

Old English

Noun

fugle

1. dative singular of fugol