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)

1. To move or walk unsteadily

Etymology 2

See cog (“small boat”).

Noun

coggle (plural coggles)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (archaic) Something which is unsteady or unbalanced.

Verb

coggle (third-person singular present coggles, present participle cogglein, past cogglet, past participle cogglet)

1. (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)

1. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
2. An error or blunder.
3. 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)

1. (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

2. (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.

3. (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
4. (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.

5. 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.

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

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