Tanglesome

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised or marked by entanglement, tangled, entangled.

    "It is not to tease you, and hurt you, my sweet, / But only for kindness and care, / That I wash you and dress you, and make you look neat, / And comb out your tanglesome hair."

  2. 2
    Quarrelsome. UK, dialectal

Example

More examples

"It is not to tease you, and hurt you, my sweet, / But only for kindness and care, / That I wash you and dress you, and make you look neat, / And comb out your tanglesome hair."

Etymology

From tangle + -some.

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