wrangler

[ rang-gler ]

noun

1. a cowboy, especially one in charge of saddle horses.
2. a person who wrangles or disputes.
3. (at Cambridge University, England) a person placed in the first class in the mathematics tripos.

wrangler

/ ˈræŋɡlə /

noun

1. one who wrangles
2. a herder; cowboy
3. a person who handles or controls animals involved in the making of a film or television programme

   a snake wrangler

4. (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos. The wrangler with the highest marks is called the senior wrangler

Word History and Origins

Origin of wrangler¹

1505–15; wrangle + -er ¹; wrangler ( def 1 ) originally horse-wrangler, probably partial translation of Mexican Spanish caballerango groom, stable boy, with -erango suggesting wrangler

Example Sentences

From Romantic squish to scabrous satirist to rebel wrangler to, finally, Ambassador of Goodwill.

From The Daily Beast

Johnny worked as a wrangler at the Elkhorn dude ranch, but he lived only for the rodeo—until he met Sue.

From The Daily Beast

She served as a gatekeeper and adviser, friend and designer wrangler.

From The Daily Beast

By Tuesday morning it will be interesting to see whether Wrangler is still running their Brett Favre commercials.

From The Daily Beast

On the rise, sharply silhouetted against the west, Alfred rode wrangler to the little herd of ponies.

From Project Gutenberg

"Oh, no, this kind of a wrangler isn't," laughed the foreman.

From Project Gutenberg

The first, or senior, wrangler probably beat him by a facility in applying well-known rules, and a readiness in writing.

From Project Gutenberg

Gilbert Wakefield, second wrangler in 1776, published an edition of Lucretius, and was a man of great ability and energy.

From Project Gutenberg

Mathematics came within his department; but, certainly in my time, he never turned out a wrangler.

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Related Words

• breeder
• herder
• herdsman