"Briggle. — To be in an uneasy mental condition, to shift the attention rapidly from one thing to another. “Don’t briggle so.” In common use in Ohio. —Fanny D. Bergen, Cambridge, Mass."
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Fanny D. Bergen
(née Frances Dickerson; February 4, 1846 – September 1, 1924) was an American , , and author. She was the co-author, with her husband , of The Development Theory (1884) and A Primer of Darwinism and Organic Evolution (1890).
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