migglen.
/ˈmɪɡl/, U.S. /ˈmɪɡ(ə)l/ U.S. regional.
A marble, esp. one made from baked clay. Also (in plural): the game of marbles.
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1890 Dial. Notes 1 76 ‘Miggles’ is the generic name for marbles, also meaning the commonest clay marbles.
1906 Amer. Illustr. Mag. Mar. 562/1 Boys garner birds' eggs, door knobs, chalk, and miggles.
1940 Recreation (New York) 34 110 A list of the many games of marbles played throughout the country follows:..miggles, mibs.
1969 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) at Mig The plain ones [sc. marbles] are the ones that you try to hit the set-up with... Then the other guys would try to hit that set-up with the common marbles. But meanwhile all the common marbles you took in were yours, and that was miggles.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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