misˈguggle, v. Sc.
Also -goggle, -grugle.
[f. mis-1 8 + guggle, gruggle to handle roughly or clumsily (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).]
trans. To handle roughly, maul; to mar, spoil, bungle.
| 1742 R. Forbes Jrnl. in Ajax's Sp., etc. (1755) 33 She bad me had aff my hands, for I misgrugled a' her apron. 1814 Scott Wav. xviii, Donald had been misguggled by ane of these doctors about Paris. 1818 ― Hrt. Midl. viii, Overturning and mishguggling the government and discipline of the kirk. 1825–80 Jamieson, To misgoggle, to spoil,..as, ‘He's fairly misgogglit that job’. |