Dictionary

croggle en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/

Etymology

Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.

Meanings

1. (dated, slang, transitive) To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
   • CROGGLE (Grennell) Roughly meaning shocked into momentary physical or mental paralysis; a portmanteau-word, apparently, combining "crushed" and "goggled", and usually passive or reflexive in application. 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Croggle:
   • Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco. 1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun:
2. (dated, intransitive, slang) To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.
   • Other than croggle at its naïveté, I'm not sure how to respond to this. Making source code public does not increase the number of vulnerabilities, only the awareness of them by the general public. 2000, Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

becroggle · crogglement