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wrangler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɹeɪ̯ŋɡlɚ/ æ-raising
  • /ˈɹæŋɡləː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɹæŋɡlɚ/ without æ-raising
  • [ˈɹʷæŋɡləː] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈɹʷæŋɡlɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷæŋɡlɹ̩] without æ-raising
  • /ˈɹɛ̃ŋɡlɚ/ æ-raising
  • [ˈɹʷeɪ̯ŋɡlɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷeɪ̯ŋɡlɹ̩] æ-raising
  • [ˈɹʷɛ̃ŋɡlɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷɛ̃ŋɡlɹ̩] æ-raising

Etymology

Etymology tree English wrangle Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English wrangler From wrangle + -er.

Meanings

  1. Someone who wrangles or corrals.
    • And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly. 2025 October 4, Maureen Dowd, “When A.I. Came for Hollywood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2025:
  2. A brawler or disputant.
    • The Seas and Windes (old Wranglers) tooke a Truce, / And did him ſeruice; he touch'd the Ports desir'd, c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
  3. (US) A cowboy who takes care of saddle horses.
    • Even as I stretched my arms and shivered a little, the two wranglers threw down their tin plates with a clatter, mounted horses and rode away in the direction of the thousand acres or so known as the pasture. 1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 5, in Arizona Nights:
  4. (US) A cowboy who takes care of tourists.
  5. An animal handler or trainer.
  6. (UK, qualifier:Cambridge University) A student who has completed the third year of the mathematical tripos with first-class honours.
    • During all this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he was a fine scholar, and was perfectly sure he would gain a gold medal, and be a Senior Wrangler. 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXXIV, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
  7. (New-England, US, derogatory) A special education teacher.
  8. (Texas) A groom.

Forms

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Deriveds

wranglership · data wrangler · tard wrangler · baby wrangler

Relateds

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