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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gaggly en · ADJ

Etymology

From gaggle + -y.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Tending to form a gaggle or crowd.
    • I giggled. Giggled! Like some giggly, gaggly girl. That was so not me. 2009, Serena Robar, Giving Up the V, page 68:
    • Early one Saturday morning, a gaggly line of children stretched away behind the fix-it van. 2019, Scott Russell Sanders, The Engineer of Beasts, page 116:
    • The gaggles of housewives were less gaggly, keeping an unusual distance from each other as they picked up groceries. 2017, P. T. Phronk, Of Moons and Monsters:

Forms

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most gaggly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more gaggly Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

gregarious