uggle
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Norn alka (“dirty; defile”).
Verb
uggle (third-person singular simple present uggles, present participle uggling, simple past and past participle uggled)
- (Shetland, obsolete) To make dirty.
- 1898 August 27, Shetland News:
- Lass, doo'll ugle dy cleen cot, couldna da tooel dü—?
Synonyms
References
- Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary[1], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298
- “uggle”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.