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
The ladyes wrang their fingers white, The maidens tore their hair;90 A' for the sake of their true loves, For them they'll see nae mair.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Then up bespak his brither John, Says, "Ye've deen us meikle wrang, O; Ye've married een below our degree,55 A lake to a' our kin, O."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
The veriest "de'il"—as Burns says—"wad look into thy face and swear he could na wrang thee."
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
If onny wish the cause te knaw, Whah they are able te deea seea,— “’Tis munney macks the meer te gang, Macks wrang seeam reeght, an’ reeght seeam wrang.”
From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by Castillo, John
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