aggle

From Old Irish ecla (compare Scottish Gaelic eagal, Irish eagla).

aggle m (genitive singular aggle, plural agglyn)

1. fear

• agglagh
• agglee

• aggl
• haggle (Orkney)

• (Insular) IPA^(key): /aɡl/, /ʌɡl/

aggle (plural aggles)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) A mess; a confused or dirty state.

   Eftir da rain dastreen da rigs is in wan aggle o dirt.

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aggle (third-person singular present aggles, present participle agglin, past aggelt, past participle aggelt)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) to soil; defile; dirty

   I wiss du widna aggle dee haands i yun fish brucks.

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2. (Orkney, Shetland) to make a mess

• “aggle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.