croggle
verb/ˈkɹɒɡ.əl/
Etymology Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.
- 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.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Croggle:
- Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun:
- 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.2000, Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- becroggle, crogglement