brangle

American  

[brang-guhl] / ˈbræŋ gəl /

noun

1. a squabble.

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verb (used without object)

brangled, brangling

1. to dispute in a noisy or angry manner; squabble.

Etymology

Origin of brangle

First recorded in 1545–55; perhaps variant of branle

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

brangle brangled brangling

E. brangled confused, entangled, Scot. brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused with brawl.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The cause whie they haunte solitarie places, it is by reason, that they may affraie and brangle the more the faith of suche as them alone hauntes such places.

From Daemonologie. by James I, King of England

And the same frequency of acts, but less subtile by reason of the clearer vowel a, is indicated in jangle, tangle, spangle, mangle, wrangle, brangle, dangle; as also in mumble, grumble, jumble.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

E. brangled confused, entangled, Scot. brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused with brawl.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

To hear in the pit-mirk on hie The brangled collieshangie flie, The warl', they thocht, wi' land an' sea, Itsel' wad cowpit; An' for auld airn, the smashed debris By God be rowpit.

From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The said author in another place, showing a reason why Charmides shook and brangled his head, assevered that he was transported and in an ecstasy.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

I do not hold thy offer competent; Nor do I like th' assurance of thy Land, The title is so brangled with thy debts.

From The Merry Devil by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

But with raillery to nettle, Sets your thoughts upon their mettle; Gives imagination scope; Never lets your mind elope; Drives out brangling and contention.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst

Take heed of an idle, talking, or brangling tongue.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

It was on the way to the Sally Mangy that this brangling had begun, and it ended jest as they were seating themselves.

From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Bloom of Crawford's journal sitting snug with a covey of wags, likely brangling fellows, Dixon jun., scholar of my lady of Mercy's, Vin.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

O Mr. doctor, that I did but understand half so much of the art of brangling as you do!—What would I give!—Harkee—I'll settle an hundred a year upon you.—But come, go on, go on— SUBTLE.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William