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wranglesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From wrangle + -some.

Meanings

  1. Characterised or marked by wrangling; inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
    • “Dinna be so wranglesome, Lael Click. It doesna become you.” She shot back, “I'm not the only wranglesome one here!” 2009, Laura Frantz, The Frontiersman's Daughter:
    • They remind one of wranglesome children- perpetually plotting , and counterplotting against each other 1830, John Fanning Watson, Annals of Philadelphia:
    • Pike got drunk and was very “wranglesome.” 2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving:

Forms

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most wranglesome Degree=Sup lexicographic
more wranglesome Degree=Cmp lexicographic