α. 1700s– poggle Brit. 
/ˈpɒɡl/, U.S. /ˈpɑɡ(ə)l/, 1900s– puggle.
β. 1800s puggly, 1800s pugley.
pugglen.1adj.
/ˈpʌɡl/, U.S. /ˈpəɡ(ə)l/ slang (originally Anglo-Indian). Now rare.† A. n.1
A crazy or foolish person, an idiot. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > idiot, crazy person
Jack foolc1405
drivel1478
idiotc1480
nidiot1533
hare-brain1542
hare-copa1566
nidget1579
lunatic1602
flight-head1605
moonling1631
driveller1682
tomfool1683
niddy-noddy1722
imbecile1781
puggle1783
gype1825
eejit1853
nowmun1854
dinlo1873
loon1885
ratbag1890
doughbakea1895
ding-a-ling1899
feeb1914
dingbat1915
bodoh1922
diddy1933
Nimrod1933
pranny1949
momo1953
head-the-ball1958
flake1968
fuckwit1969
tattie-bogle1969
div1975
tube1975
wazzock1976
gonzo1977
motorhead1979
prannet1979
twonk1981
dough ball1983
numpty1985
divvy1987
1783 J. Price Ministerial Almanack 44 If there is in England, a man who has resided a dozen years amongst the Hindoos, that has not the same sentiments with respect to their general stamp of political character, then I am a Poggle.
1829 J. Shipp Mem. Mil. Career II. viii. 233 It's true, the people call me, I know not why, the ‘pugley’.
1863 G. O. Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow ii. 37 I was foolish enough to pay these hurrumzarders beforehand, and they have thrown me over. I must have been a poggle to do it!
1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 542 Poggle, puggly, etc... Properly Hind. pāgal; a madman, an idiot; often used colloquially by Anglo-Indians.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 225 Poggle (also puggle)... An idiot.
B. adj.
Military. Mentally unbalanced, crazy. Cf. slightly earlier puggled adj. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
woodc725
woodsekc890
giddyc1000
out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000
witlessc1000
brainsickOE
amadc1225
lunaticc1290
madc1330
sickc1340
brain-wooda1375
out of one's minda1387
frenetica1398
fonda1400
formada1400
unwisea1400
brainc1400
unwholec1400
alienate?a1425
brainless1434
distract of one's wits1470
madfula1475
furious1475
distract1481
fro oneself1483
beside oneself1490
beside one's patience1490
dementa1500
red-wood?1507
extraught1509
misminded1509
peevish1523
bedlam-ripe1525
straughta1529
fanatic1533
bedlama1535
daft1540
unsounda1547
stark raving (also staring) mad1548
distraughted1572
insane1575
acrazeda1577
past oneself1576
frenzy1577
poll-mad1577
out of one's senses1580
maddeda1586
frenetical1588
distempered1593
distraught1597
crazed1599
diswitted1599
idle-headed1599
lymphatical1603
extract1608
madling1608
distracteda1616
informala1616
far gone1616
crazy1617
March mada1625
non compos mentis1628
brain-crazed1632
demented1632
crack-brained1634
arreptitiousa1641
dementate1640
dementated1650
brain-crackeda1652
insaniated1652
exsensed1654
bedlam-witteda1657
lymphatic1656
mad-like1679
dementative1685
non compos1699
beside one's gravity1716
hyte1720
lymphated1727
out of one's head1733
maddened1735
swivel-eyed1758
wrong1765
brainsickly1770
fatuous1773
derangedc1790
alienated1793
shake-brained1793
crack-headed1796
flighty1802
wowf1802
doitrified1808
phrenesiac1814
bedlamite1815
mad-braineda1822
fey1823
bedlamitish1824
skire1825
beside one's wits1827
as mad as a hatter1829
crazied1842
off one's head1842
bemadded1850
loco1852
off one's nut1858
off his chump1864
unsane1867
meshuga1868
non-sane1868
loony1872
bee-headed1879
off one's onion1881
off one's base1882
(to go) off one's dot1883
locoed1885
screwy1887
off one's rocker1890
balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891
meshuggener1892
nutty1892
buggy1893
bughouse1894
off one's pannikin1894
ratty1895
off one's trolley1896
batchy1898
twisted1900
batsc1901
batty1903
dippy1903
bugs1904
dingy1904
up the (also a) pole1904
nut1906
nuts1908
nutty as a fruitcake1911
bugged1920
potty1920
cuckoo1923
nutsy1923
puggled1923
blah1924
détraqué1925
doolally1925
off one's rocket1925
puggle1925
mental1927
phooey1927
crackers1928
squirrelly1928
over the edge1929
round the bend1929
lakes1934
ding-a-ling1935
wacky1935
screwball1936
dingbats1937
Asiatic1938
parlatic1941
troppo1941
up the creek1941
screwed-up1943
bonkers1945
psychological1952
out to lunch1955
starkers1956
off (one's) squiff1960
round the twist1960
yampy1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
out of one's skull1967
whacked out1969
batshit1971
woo-woo1971
nutso1973
out of (one's) gourd1977
wacko1977
off one's meds1986
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 225 Poggle (also puggle), mad.
1936 H. Graham Private Life of Gregory Gorm 229 I can't quite make up my mind whether he is a genius, as some people seem to think, or only slightly poggle.
1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 80 A woman in this bloody dump? You're going puggle, Page, that's your trouble! Too much tropical sun.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pugglen.2
/ˈpʌɡl/, U.S. /ˈpəɡ(ə)l/, Australian English /ˈpʌɡ(ə)l/ Originally Australian. Chiefly colloquial.
A young or baby echidna or platypus.
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1992 Advertiser (Adelaide) 18 Aug. 31/6 Once the echidna hatches and stays in the mother's pouch it is known as a puggle.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 May a23 (caption) A platypus baby, or puggle, being held before being transferred back to its burrow at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.
2019 G. Tobias in L. Vogelnest & T. Portas Current Therapy Med. Austral. Mammals xxviii. 415 Rescued free-ranging puggles will require hand-rearing.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pugglen.3
/ˈpʌɡl/, U.S. /ˈpəɡ(ə)l/ A dog cross-bred from a pug and a beagle; such dogs considered collectively as a breed.
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2002 Madison (Wisconsin) State Jrnl. 20 Dec. (Classified section) b/2 (advt.) Puggle pups: Pug/ Beagle Cross.
2005 National Post (Canada) 12 Nov. a22/1 Now, we are told, the most popular line of pooch has become the puggle, a pug/beagle cross that is especially capturing the hearts of stylish New Yorkers.
2014 Time 8 Sept. 44 (caption) Some puggles inherit the longer nose of the beagle, which can reduce the breathing problems associated with the pug.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pugglev.
/ˈpʌɡl/, U.S. /ˈpəɡ(ə)l//ˈpɒɡl/, U.S. /ˈpɑɡ(ə)l/. English regional (chiefly south-eastern) and U.S. regional.
transitive. To push or poke a stick or wire down (a hole or aperture) and work it about in order to clear an obstruction, drive out an animal, etc. Also intransitive.
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1863 Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. 2 186 Puggle, to poke out, as to puggle the ashes, a drain, or anything that is encumbered with rubbish.
1899 MS Let. in N.E.D. (1909) (at cited word) The man gave me a wire and told me to puggle the pipe. I have puggled it several times, but the water does not come.
1905 Notes & Queries 10th Ser. 4 486/2 To get a rat or rabbit out of a hole by inserting a stick and working it about was to ‘puggle’.
1984 R. Wilder You All spoken Here 45 Puggle, punch; annoy, as one pokes at varmints in hollow gum logs.
2012 @lynnhunt46 31 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) It was when they got the root out of gum and were puggling around then sewed it up, the pain!!!!!!!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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