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wringle-wrangle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From wrangle by ablaut reduplication.

Meanings

  1. (countable, slang, uncountable) A verbal argument.
    • ‘I can propose it,’ van Rijn said carefully. ‘After a month's wringle-wrangle, I get voted no. They won't believe either, SI would do something so bad like that, for some sternly commercial reason.’ 1969, Poul Anderson, Satan's World:
    • A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination ITS troglodyte was flung around some during the Usenet and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride. 1996, compiled by Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, page 453, definition of troglodyte

Forms

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wringle-wrangles Number=Plur lexicographic

wringle-wrangle en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From wrangle by ablaut reduplication.

Meanings

  1. (slang) To argue.
    • You know the foolishness of fighting; here is a haven of rest; and you must needs go back to wringle wrangle among the literary men of London. 1883, Sir Walter Besant, The Captains' Room etc., page 25:

Forms

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wringle-wrangled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wringle-wrangled Tense=Past lexicographic
wringle-wrangles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
wringle-wrangling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

argle-bargle