wrangle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æŋɡəl

Verb

wrangle (third-person singular simple present wrangles, present participle wrangling, simple past and past participle wrangled)

1. (intransitive) to bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily
   • Shakespeare

     For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle.

   • Addison

     He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.

2. (transitive) to herd horses or other livestock
3. (transitive) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Sanderson to this entry?)

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:squabble

Translations

to bicker

• Finnish: riidellä (fi), rähistä (fi), torailla (fi), kiistellä (fi)
• French: quereller (fr), disputer (fr)
• German: rangeln (de), streiten (de)

• Maori: rure (mi)
• Swedish: gräla, käbbla, munhuggas

to herd livestock

• Finnish: paimentaa (fi)

• German: treiben (de)

Noun

wrangle (plural wrangles)

1. An act of wrangling
2. An angry dispute

Translations

act of wrangling

• Finnish: riitely (fi), kiistely (fi), torailu (fi), rähinöinti (fi)

• German: Rangelei (de) f, Streit (de) m

angry dispute

• Finnish: riita (fi), kiista (fi), tora (fi), rähinä (fi), sanasota (fi)

• Swedish: gräl, käbbel, munhuggande