trickle
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.
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trickle (plural trickles)
The sound of the trickle of a brook
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trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)
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