You may think I have misspelled the title of this post, and in a way I have, but I did so deliberately. The other day when typing struggle I accidentally typed sturggle. I thought that it looked like an interesting word, and wondered what it might mean.
Apparently I’m not the first person to come up with this word – according to the Urban Dictionary, sturggle means:
To be afflicted with a debilitating hangover to the point where you cannot speak.
I’ve never been sturggled in this sense.
Do you have any other suggestions as to what sturggle might mean?
Have you accidentally come up with any other new words?
I have to say the double “g” in “sturggle” seems odd. The “g” is doubled in “struggle” so it’s pronounced /ˈstɹʌɡəl/ and not /ˈstɹuːɡəl/; you could just as well use the spelling “sturgle”.
Sturgle, of course has its own Urban Dictionary definition, “to act foolishly; to be farting around…” I’d never heard that before, though I suppose I’m doing it now.
If I were to make my own meaning for sturgle/sturggle, I would first make up a proposed Indoeuropean etymology.
It could be perhaps from the root “stā-” (whence “stand”), an intransitive verb, “to be so shocked as to stop in one’s tracks.”
Alternately it could be a noun, via Latin *sterculus. (IE root “sker-“, relating to dung) It just means “a little shit.”