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gaggle

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++gag·gle /ˈɡæɡəl/ noun  1 a gaggle of tourists/children etc GROUP OF PEOPLEa noisy group of people 一群叽叽喳喳的游客/小孩等 a gaggle of teenage girls 一群叽叽喳喳的少女2. a gaggle of geese HBBGROUP OF THINGSa group of geese 一群鹅
Examples from the Corpus
gaggleThen I saw a gaggle of youths arriving with guitar cases for a recording session, and I changed my mind.The local press came in curious gaggles, and the students eased shyly into their new incarnations as media darlings.Somehow he did his duty, and Gladys joined the growing gaggle of young women.And here, gaggles of exuberant fourth-graders begged for his autograph as if he were Pluto in Disneyland.
Origin gaggle (1300-1400) gaggle to make the sound of geese, to talk noisily ((14-19 centuries)), from the sound
gag·gle nounChineseSyllable
of people noisy Corpus a group


gaggle
gaggle /ˈɡæɡəl/ noun
 Date: 1300-1400
 Origin: gaggle 'to make the sound of geese, to talk noisily' (14-19 centuries), from the sound
1. a gaggle of tourists/children etc a noisy group of people:
    a gaggle of teenage girls
2. a gaggle of geese a group of geese


gag·gleBrE /ˈɡæɡl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡæɡl/ 🔊 nouna group of noisy people 一群(吵闹的人)a gaggle of tourists/schoolchildren 一群喧闹的游客/叽叽喳喳的小学生a group of geese 一群(鹅);(鹅)群