Meaning

2 senses
  1. (dated, slang, transitive)To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.

  2. (dated, intransitive, slang)To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.

Origin

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

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

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Forms

croggles, croggling, croggled, croggled
Base formcroggle · to croggle
3rd person singularcroggles
Present participlecroggling
Past simplecroggled
Past participlecroggled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycroggle
he, she, itcroggles

Past simpleLesson

all personscroggled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave croggled
he, she, ithas croggled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill croggle

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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