wrang
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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I wrang my hands over these jokes when I began to notice a confluence of them.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2021
"Ha, ha, Jock, ye're maybe wrang, I'se warran ye gentle folks' dogs 'ill ken't brawly, for there's schools, noo, whar they learn the dumb baith to read and speak."
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
“Eh! mun, ye begin at wrang end,” was the answer.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
Ye micht check me when I gang wrang.'
From A Practical Novelist by Davidson, John
"But ye are wrang aboot the siller," cried Cubby—"there's no sae muckle o't as ye say."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
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