mangle

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋɡəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English mangelen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.

Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
    • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel
  2. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch mangel, from late Middle High German mangel, enhanced form of mange, originally “mangonel”, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum. Doublet of mangonel. Cognate with German Mangel, Dutch mangel, both “mangle”.

Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

hand mangle
  1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
    • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
      There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
Translations

Etymology 3

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Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

  1. mangrove (tree)

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish mangle.

Pronunciation

Noun

mangle m (plural mangles)

  1. mangrove

Danish

Etymology

From German mangeln (“to lack”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /manɡlə/, [ˈmɑŋlə]

Verb

mangle (imperative mangl, infinitive at mangle, present tense mangler, past tense manglede, perfect tense er/har manglet)

  1. lack
  2. want
  3. need
  4. be missing
  5. be lacking
  6. be absent

German

Verb

mangle

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of mangeln.
  2. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of mangeln.
  3. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of mangeln.
  4. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of mangeln.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German mangeln

Verb

mangle (imperative mangl or mangle, present tense mangler, simple past and past participle mangla or manglet, present participle manglende)

  1. to lack (something)

References

Spanish

Etymology

From Kari'na or Taíno/Lokono

Noun

mangle m (plural mangles)

  1. mangrove
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