gaggle
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gaggle englanniksi
A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
(cot)
(quote-book)
(quote-journal)
Any group or gathering of related things, particularly one perceived as noisy, boisterous or chaotic.
(syn)
(quote-journal)|title=boys in the back: or how a movie made me come out|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v62-n048-november-24-1972-11795/page/6/|platform=Internet Archive|text=A gaggle of gays—probably no more than 15 or so, but from our perspective there seemed to be literally scores of them—pranced, skipped and otherwise just plain camped their way into the last few rows of seats.
(quote-web)
(short for): an informal briefing of journalists.
: A group of women.
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
1733, Swift|Jonathan Swift, "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Awww.online-literature.com+%22gaggling%22+-%22network+forums%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=KH2_U6vnMOqM8QfX4oC4Aw ''The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II''):
- When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?