aggle

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ecal. Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic eagal.

Noun

aggle m (genitive singular aggle, plural agglyn)

1. fear

   Ny bee aggle erriu. ― Don't be afraid.

Derived terms

• agglagh
• agglee

Scots

Alternative forms

• aggl, agl (Shetland)

Etymology

Compare Norwegian alka (“to dirty, defile”).

Pronunciation

• (Insular Scots) IPA^(key): /aɡl/, /ʌɡl/

Noun

aggle (plural aggles)

1. (Insular Scots) mess; confused or dirty state.

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

   After the yesterday evening rain, the rigs is in a mess of dirt.

Verb

aggle (third-person singular simple present aggles, present participle agglin, simple past and past participle aggled)

1. (Insular Scots) to soil; defile; dirty

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

   I wish you would not dirty the hands in those fish left-overs.

2. (Insular Scots) to make a mess

Further reading

• “aggle, v & n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “aggle”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎