Talk:puggle

RFV discussion: May 2016–February 2017
RFV-sense "(Australia) To clean drains." Tagged but not listed. - -sche (discuss) 04:43, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This is almost certainly spurious. However, when searching for it, I came across an apparently dialectal Scottish term puggled, meaning "drained" (in the sense of "tired"), which we don't have (see and Chambers Crossword Dictionary). This, that and the other (talk) 11:13, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Having looked at this again, I don't think this is spurious, but I think it is the same as sense 2 ("to poke around" etc). OED has only that sense in the "puggle" entry, which is labelled "Eng. regional (chiefly south-east.) and U.S. regional", and it has a quote from an 1863 article (word list?) which mentions the example "to puggle a drain". So this word does seem to exist, but it is quite a rare dialectal form and could be difficult to cite. The Australia label is certainly highly doubtful. This, that and the other (talk) 23:37, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * This sense not recorded in Australian dictionaries. I have not been able to locate any cites from Australia for this.Sonofcawdrey (talk) 05:32, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

RFV failed. Even in the event that this could be shown to exist, our sense 2 covers it: "To poke around a hole with a stick, as to ... remove obstacles". This, that and the other (talk) 05:53, 19 February 2017 (UTC)