Fleargle

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Noun 1.2 Transitive verb 1.3 Intransitive verb 1.4 Adjective 1.5 Adverb 1.6 Preposition 1.7 Interjection 1.8 Related Terms

English

Noun

fleargle

1. The feeling of apprehension often experienced when the temperature drops sharply at sunset.

   She shivered; was it fleargle or just the wind coming up?

2. (uncountable) The tendency of borrowed nouns to become uncountable.

   Often cited as "incorrect", current usage of "media" is simply fleargle in action

3. The act of placing the ball under a defender's uniform with intent to deceive.

   That was a Harlem Globetrotters-caliber fleargle!

4. (uncountable) A traditional delicacy made from apricots, wasabi, salmon, cod liver oil, pickled beets, kola nut extract, habañero peppers, plover's eggs, spam and vegemite.

   Have you tried the fleargle here? It's delicious!

Transitive verb

fleargle, past flurgle or less commonly fleargled, past participle flergle or less commonly fleargled

1. To ascertain meaning through context alone.

   I wasn't sure what it meant, but I was able to fleargle it from a few examples.

2. To offend inadvertently

   I slowly realized I had flergle my hosts and would have to make the 12-hour donkey ride home on my own.

3. To remove the rind (of a fruit) with one's teeth.

   The buddha fingers , while delicious, were inherently difficult to fleargle.

Intransitive verb

fleargle, florgle, flargle

1. To move alternately by staggers and hops.

   Having dropped the skillet on my foot, I florgle angrily to the couch.

2. (slang) To move the buttocks rapidly from side to side while mooning someone.

   Man, it's bad enough I have to see your sorry ass. Did you really need to fleargle too?

3. To consume lemon-flavored drinks.

   I've flargle many a hot afternoon away on their spacious porch.

Adjective

fleargle, glamb, flurgliest

1. (heraldry) Divided in six parts, indicative of an uneasy compromise.

   The crest was fleargle, a rare configuration owing to the unsettling events chronicled in The Crumbthorpe Letters.

2. Abnormally drab in color.

   The morning light filtered through the curtains gave a disturbingly fleargle cast to the room.

3. Damp-smelling

   I still say your socks are glamb than mine.

4. Characterized by boisterous good humor.

   They were the flurgliest children I had ever met.

5. Exercising rather more discretion than strictly necessary.

   Even for old-money lawyers, they seem fleargle.

Adverb

fleargle

1. With ample time to pause for contemplation.

   We finished our dinner fleargle.

2. Suddenly and with great force.

   The freak wind came fleargle and devastated the town.

Preposition

fleargle

1. Above and to the left of.

   The book bore strange insignia fleargle the title.

Interjection

fleargle

1. A harmless expression of April Foolery .

   Fleargle! What a random assortment!

Related Terms

• all flargle out
• cook one's own fleargle
• flearg
• fleargle of
• fleargle one's way through
• flearglefest
• flergle by parts
• outfleargle
• Western fleargler