Wringle-wrangle

noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A verbal argument. countable, slang, uncountable

    "‘I can propose it,’ van Rijn said carefully. ‘After a month's wringle-wrangle, I get voted no. They won't believe either, SI would do something so bad like that, for some sternly commercial reason.’"

Verb
  1. 1
    To argue. slang

    "You know the foolishness of fighting; here is a haven of rest; and you must needs go back to wringle wrangle among the literary men of London."

Synonyms

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argle-bargle

Example

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"‘I can propose it,’ van Rijn said carefully. ‘After a month's wringle-wrangle, I get voted no. They won't believe either, SI would do something so bad like that, for some sternly commercial reason.’"

Etymology

From wrangle by ablaut reduplication.

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