Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flock of geese.
- noun A cluster or group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a noise like a goose; cackle.
- noun In fowling, a flight or flock of geese; hence, a chattering company.
- noun Synonyms Covey, etc. See
flock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground.
- noun A gathering of people, especially a noisy one.
- noun Any clustered group of related objects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A group of
geese when they are on the ground or on the water. - noun Any group or gathering of related things;
bunch . - verb To
cackle (like geese).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a noise characteristic of a goose
- noun a flock of geese
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That happened just a few moments ago in what we call the gaggle this morning with White House Press Secretary Tony Snow.
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It was about 11: 05 this morning, while while we were asking questions of Mr. Fleischer -- as we always do in the morning -- what we call the gaggle -- Gordon Johndroe, who is an assistant who works for Mr. Fleischer, came in and handed him a Post-it note it, and on that note it said, We must evacuate this section of the West Wing.
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If this gaggle is key to anything, it's doomed from the start!
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The press corps is often referred to as a gaggle, as in a “gaggle of geese,” but that hardly conveys the strange divide between the press and the “principal.”
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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He spent several days haunting the meadow where his friend found the dead honker, hoping it was part of a flock or a gaggle or whatever the English word for a group of honkers was.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Suzanne Malveaux, you are in what the reporters call the gaggle, which is an off-camera briefing between the White House public relations arm and reporters every morning.
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The gods must be crazy, but a gaggle from the Greek pantheon are also having a disco-fueled, quip-filled blast in "Xanadu," the camp-tastic Broadway musical that just whisked into the Paramount Theatre on roller skates for a short touring run.
The Seattle Times 2010
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In March 1990 she called a gaggle of historians to Chequers to discuss the German character, or rather the likely ambitions and governing style of a united nation.
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Better than talking about what a FREAK SHOW the gaggle is gonna be? we’ll see.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Snow Says He Regrets Criticizing Bush 2006
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The trouble for Kenowa is that it's not his battle-tested and legendary band of brothers, but the Bad News Bears version, a rag-tag gaggle of misfits from every corner of Her Majesty's Empire ... and Kenowa is second-in-command behind a prince with little skill or charisma.
Rabid Reads: "A Darkness Forged in Fire" by Chris Evans 2009
alexscampie commented on the word gaggle
Gaggle is also an Orcadian dialect word used when 1) you make a mess or 2) you work clumsily or carelessly.
July 1, 2009