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Webster 1913 Edition


Wranglesome

Wran′gle-some

,
Adj.
Contentious; quarrelsome.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wranglesome

WRANGLESOME

,
Adj.
Contentious; quarrelsome.

Definition 2024


wranglesome

wranglesome

English

Adjective

wranglesome (comparative more wranglesome, superlative most wranglesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by wrangling; inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
    • 2009, Laura Frantz, The Frontiersman's Daughter:
      “Dinna be so wranglesome, Lael Click. It doesna become you.” She shot back, “I'm not the only wranglesome one here!”
    • 2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving:
      Pike got drunk and was very “wranglesome.”