fugle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from fugleman.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fugle (third-person singular simple present fugles, present participle fugling, simple past and past participle fugled)
- (colloquial) To manoeuvre; to move around.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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[edit]Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fugle c
- indefinite plural of fugl
Old English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fugle
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