coggle vs stumble what difference
what is difference between coggle and stumble
English
Etymology 1
Origin obscure. Perhaps from cog (“small boat”) + -le (frequentative suffix), in reference to the rocking or swaying motion of the sea; or perhaps an alteration of cockle (“to move up and down”).
Verb
coggle (third-person singular simple present coggles, present participle coggling, simple past and past participle coggled)
- To move or walk unsteadily
Etymology 2
See cog (“small boat”).
Noun
coggle (plural coggles)
- A small fishing boat.
References
- Lewis Randolph Hamersly, A naval encyclopædia.
Etymology 3
From cock (“a roundish heap”) + -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Swedish kokkel (“a lump of earth”). Compare also Dutch kogel, German Kugel (“ball”).
Noun
coggle (plural coggles)
- cobble (all senses)
Derived terms
- Burton Coggles
Scots
Alternative forms
- cogle, kogl, kogel, cuggle, kugl, kugel, kuggle, kuggal
Pronunciation
- (Insular Scots) IPA(key): /ˈko.ɡəl/
- (Northern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.ɡl/
- (Central Scots) IPA(key): /ˈko.ɡəl/
- (Ayrshire) IPA(key): /ˈkʌɡl/
- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.ɡl/
- (Hawick) IPA(key): /ˈko.ɡʌl/
Noun
coggle (plural coggles)
- (archaic) Something which is unsteady or unbalanced.
Verb
coggle (third-person singular present coggles, present participle cogglein, past cogglet, past participle cogglet)
- (archaic) To rock, totter, shake.
English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstʌmbəl/
- Rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Noun
stumble (plural stumbles)
- A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
- An error or blunder.
- A clumsy walk.
Synonyms
- (a blunder): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko
- See also Thesaurus:error
Translations
Verb
stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled)
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figuratively) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.
- 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles
- He [Ovid] had stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia […] in a bath.
- 1754, Christopher Smart, Snake
- Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.
- 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles
Derived terms
- stumble across
- stumble against
- stumble on
- stumble upon
Translations
See also
- stumbling block
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “stumble”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
- tumbles