croggle

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/ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/

verb

To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.

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Meanings

verbcroggle (third-person singular simple present croggles, present participle croggling, simple past and past participle croggled)

present singular third person croggles · participle present croggling · participle past croggled · past croggled

  1. datedslangtransitivelifestyleTo shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.

    Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.

    1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun
    1 more example

    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.

    1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Croggle
  2. datedintransitiveslanglifestyleTo 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.

    2000, Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, →ISBN

Origin

Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with croggle

togglegoggleoglebogleboggleNogglejogglebecrogglerogglesnogglewoggle
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Anagrams

clogger
Cite this entry
APA

croggle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/croggle

MLA

“croggle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/croggle. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “croggle,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/croggle.

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