fugle

English

Etymology

Back-formation from fugleman.

Verb

fugle (third-person singular simple present fugles, present participle fugling, simple past and past participle fugled)

  1. (colloquial) To manoeuvre; to move around.
    • Carlyle
      Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fugle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fuːlə/, [ˈfuːlə]

Noun

fugle c

  1. plural indefinite of fugl
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