croggleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/
• 韻: -ɒɡəl

動詞

croggle (三人称単数 現在形 croggles, 現在分詞 croggling, 過去形および過去分詞形 croggled)

1. (transitive, dated, fandom スラング) To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
   • 1959, Eney, Richard "Dick" Harris, Fancyclopedia II‎^[1], Croggle:

     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.

   • 1988, McCrumb, Sharyn, Bimbos of the Death Sun:

     Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.

2. (intransitive, dated, fandom スラング) To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.
   • 2000, Schneier, Bruce, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, →ISBN:

     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.

派生語

• becroggle
• crogglement

参照

• “croggle” in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 29.
• croggle v. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project

アナグラム

• clogger