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wrang

British  
/ ræŋ /

adjective

  1. a Scot word for wrong

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“No more I ought,” said she: “Mr. St. John tells me so too; and I see I wor wrang—but I’ve clear a different notion on you now to what I had. You look a raight down dacent little crater.”

From Literature

I wrang my hands over these jokes when I began to notice a confluence of them.

From Slate

The boggle that haunted a farmhouse near Orton in the mid-19th century and turn'd the clock the wrang side up, And meade the house aw joggle would be recognised today as a poltergeist.

From The Guardian

Plus 1,100 gave Fredin and his partner, Frederic Wrang, 244 imps on the board.

From New York Times

Wrang′ling.—Senior wrangler, the student taking the first place in the class mentioned, the second being called Second wrangler, and so on in the same way.

From Project Gutenberg