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单词 misgruggle
释义

misgrugglev.

Forms: 1700s–1800s misgrugle.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, Scots gruggle.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + Scots gruggle to disorder, rumple, crease < Dutch kreukelen (Middle Dutch crokelen ) to crease, rumple, crumple < Middle Dutch crokel (Dutch kreukel ) crease < Middle Dutch croke , creuke (Dutch kreuk ; further etymology uncertain) + -el -el suffix1.Treated in N.E.D. (1907) as a variant of misguggle v.
Scottish. Obsolete.
transitive. To crumple, rumple; to spoil.
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1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 29 She bad me had aff my hands, far I misgrugled a' her apron.
1810 J. Cock Simple Strains II.90 Misgrugl'd now, an' torn to thrums.
1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick III. xi Deil! an it wadna be a gude turn tae drouk their lugs in a sowp o't, gin it war'na for misgruglin' the drap gude drink.
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. xviii. 113 Eh, lass!..gin ye had but the tongue o' the prophet's ass, ye wad sune pint out the rascals that misguided and misgrugled ye that gait.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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