bangle
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Hindi बंग्ली (“glass bracelet”).
[edit] Noun
bangle (plural bangles)
[edit] Etymology 2
Origin unknown.
[edit] Verb
bangle (third-person singular simple present bangles, present participle bangling, simple past and past participle bangled)
- (obsolete) To waste, fritter (away).
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books 2001, p. 273:
- Thus betwixt hope and fear, suspicions, angers [...] betwixt falling in, falling out, etc., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times [...].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books 2001, p. 273:
