wranglingn.

Brit.

/ˈraŋɡlɪŋ/,

/ˈraŋɡl̩ɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈræŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ/

Etymology: < wrangle v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of the verb; noisy quarrelling.

ΘΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel

flitingc1200

chidec1325

bicker1330

janglingc1330

chiding1340

wrangling1377

brawling1393

altercationc1405

words1410

brabblementa1563

wording1564

brabblery1567

bickering1573

jarring1574

bickerment1586

frapling1600

brangling1611

jangle1641

campling1660

frabble1685

collieshangie1737

flickering1776

wranglea1797

brabbling1858

bassa-bassa1956

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iv. 34 There as wratthe and wranglyng is þere wynne þei siluer.

1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 14 As for such other wranglyng..shall after be spoken of by further occasion.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Contèsa,..a strife, a debate or wrangling.

1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 137 Mars..causes discord and wrangling.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. 119 Though wild debate And wrangling rends our infant state.

1882 C. Dilke in S. Gwynn & G. M. Tuckwell Life Sir C. W. Dilke (1917) I. 426 Much unseemly wrangling would be prevented for many years.

figurative.1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C2^v 'Twill become ye, well, when wrangling wrestles with such violent iniurie.

b. Controversial argument or debate; contentious disputation.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun]

pleac1275

distancec1325

stance14..

in controversyc1432

disceptation1447

disputation1489

disception1492

concertation1509

controversity1528

contending1561

fending and proving1583

digladiation?1591

bandying1599

contestation1602

controverting1610

wrangling1612

contesting1616

rixation1623

contestion1632

controversarya1635

contest1642

vitilitigation1647

ergoteering1687

sparring1755

hash1789

controversying1865

argle-bargle1872

wringle-wrangle1882

argy-bargy1887

polemicizing1948

va-et-vient1959

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xix. 219 There falleth out amongst them oft-times..much wrangling about the questions.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 25 What wrangling the Bishops and Monks had about the reading, or not reading of Origen.

1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants (1692) ii. ii. 71 Philosophy..became little else than an Art of Rangling upon a multitude of Idle Questions.

1720 S. Payne in R. Cumberland Sanchoniatho's Phœnician Hist. p. xxvii His Averseness to any thing like Wrangling made him..leave his Book to shift for it self.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 66 All that wrangling and witticism wherewith the prophecies..have been pelted by Freethinkers.

1827 R. Whately Elem. Logic 26 A system of such rules..must, instead of deserving to be called the art of wrangling, be [etc.].

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxv. 436 A refuge from platform oratory and senatorial wrangling.

attributive.c1700 J. Pomfret Strephon's Love 10 Those dull, pedantic rules, They had collected from the wrangling schools.1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert i. i Unpractis'd in Disputes, and wrangling Schools.

2. A wrangle; a noisy quarrel.

ΘΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of

ganglinga1387

altercation1410

brawla1500

heat1549

wranglea1555

brabble1566

paroxysm1578

wrangling1580

brangle1600

branglement1617

rixation1623

row1746

skimmington1753

mêlée1765

breeze1785

squeal1788

hash1789

rook1808

blow-up1809

blowout1825

scena1826

reerie1832

catfight1854

barney1855

wigs on the green1856

bull and cow1859

scrap1890

slanging match1896

snap1897

up-and-downer1927

brannigan1941

rhubarb1941

bitch fight1949

punch-up1958

shout-up1965

shouting match1970

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 129^v They that cannot suffer the wranglings of young married women.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 39 He heard amid the street A wrangling iangling, and a Murmur rude.

1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra Pref. 2 Consider me as a Person that contemns all Wranglings.

1728 J. Swift To Stella in J. Swift et al. Misc. Last vol. 300 Not in Wranglings to engage With such a stupid vicious Age.

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings (1790) II. lxx. 530 The wranglings of Cambridge, and the disputations at Oxford, are apt to give young men a controversial turn, which [etc.].

1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus ii. i. 66 Truce with these wranglings, and but hear me.

1890 T. De W. Talmage From Manger to Throne 562 Unseemly wranglings concerning who should be greatest in the kingdom of Christ.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wranglingadj.

Brit.

/ˈraŋɡlɪŋ/,

/ˈraŋɡl̩ɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈræŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ/

Etymology: < wrangle v. + -ing suffix².

a. That wrangles, quarrels, or disputes; engaged or embroiled in, given or addicted to, noisy altercation or dispute; contentious.

ΘΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > quarrelling > in loud or angry manner

chidingc1175

janglingc1374

altercand?a1400

wrangling1487

brawling1535

strutting1577

jarring1629

pickeering1651

fratching?1748

bickering1807

fratcheous1807

1487 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 161 Hys atorney ys a wranglyng felow, he wold non odyr mony but nemyng grotes.

a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 119 Thow manytycore, ye marmoset..Wranglynge, waywyrde, wytles, wraw, and nothyng meke.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 100 Mars is a wrangling craking wretche.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. xxxiv. 93 The third Hæreticus, a wrangling carle.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxi. 55 It might serve..for a Lesson to wrangling Courtiers.

1718 A. Pope Corr. 18 Jan. (1956) I. 462 The unrighteous labours of wrangling statesmen, and the quarrelsome ones of uncharitable divines.

1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 39 After the death of poor wrangling Dennis.

1820 W. Wordsworth Dogmatic Teachers 2 Ye wrangling Schoolmen, of the scarlet hood!

1825 W. Scott Betrothed Concl., in Tales Crusaders II. 354 For wrangling curs will fight over a banquet as fiercely as over a bare bone.

1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. v. 112 The wrangling nobles of Philistia.

figurative and in extended use.1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ddiv A wrangling tongue is the best language thou hast.a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) I. 15 Thy happy stroke can into softness bring Reason, that rough and wrangling thing.1898 G. Meredith Revol. in Odes French Hist. xiii And he, the bright day's husband,..Beheld a wrangling heart, as 'twere her soul On eddies of wild waters cast.1899 A. C. Swinburne Rosamund i. 18 Let no wrangling breath distune the peace That shines..about us.

b. Noisy; clamorous; also transferred, jangling.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > noisy

fervent1465

brawlinga1568

baw-waw1570

rouncing?1576

ruff-raff1582

reirding1591

wrangling1608

perstreperous1629

ran-tan1630

streperous1637

clamant1639

chiding1648

loudmouth1668

noisy1675

noise-making1678

strepitous1681

dinsome1724

strepent1750

dinny1768

loud-mouthing1788

dinning1813

blatant1816

noisome1825

strepitant1855

polyphloisboisterousa1875

noisesome1925

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound

hoarsec1369

ganglinga1398

roughlyc1400

rauk?a1425

rustyc1430

hask?1440

savagea1450

raw1474

hoar?a1505

harsh1530

untunable1545

jarring1552

jarry1582

barking1589

absonant1600

wrangling1608

raucous1615

asper1626

streperous1637

scrannel1638

caterwaulinga1652

unmelodious1665

jangling1667

latrant1702

untuneful1709

raucid1730

unharmonious1742

unmelodized1771

unmelodic1823

raucal1826

rauque1845

raspish1847

serratic1859

jangled1874

jangly1891

amelodic1937

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour > making

clamosec1380

criousa1382

clamorousa1554

brawlinga1568

outcrying1593

barking1598

wrangling1608

clamouring1635

clamant1639

hullabalooing1867

conclamant1890

yammering1895

clamatory1900

1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. sig. E3^v When the sad nurse to still the wrangling babe, Shall sing the carefull story of my death.

1845 H. W. Longfellow Carillon in Belfry of Bruges ii When the wrangling bells had ended.

1856 C. G. F. Gore Life's Lessons II. 227 Her remote Dale, with its wrangling beck.

1891 Athenæum 15 Aug. 214/1 So has it fared with the marshlands..with their wrangling sea-fowl.

2. Of the nature of wrangling; contentious, noisy, clamorous.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour

crying1398

clamorous1526

wrangling1551

blatant1656

obstropolous1748

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > noisy or angry > of the nature of

wrangling1551

1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 43 Wherof this auctor may not thinke nowe as vpon a wranglyng argument, to satisfie a coniecture diuised.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §6. 68 To find him busie in wrangling altercation.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 57 Because hee may not as a Judge sit out the wrangling noyse of litigious Courts.

1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xix. 180 This wrangling piece of Learning.

1722 Horrobin in J. Keble Life T. Wilson (1863) 507 The wrangling, jangling disputes about the Divinity of our Saviour.

1753 J. Collier Art Tormenting (1811) 216 Some wrangling dispute or other that shall sour the whole company.

3. Marked or characterized by noisy or contentious disputation or altercation.

ΘΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > noisy or angry

wrangling1576

camping1642

wording1682

altercative1702

rowy1870

campling1881

1576 G. Whetstone Garden of Vnthriftinesse 97 in Rocke of Regard A wrangling hate, where once was passing loue.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. iv. 54 Accursed and vnquiet wrangling daies.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 251 Our wrangling humour and desire to be cavilling about questions disputable.

1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks ii. 61 He sees no wrangling courts, no lawes undone By sword.

1656 A. Cowley Destinie in Pindaric Odes iii Thou neither great at Court,..Nor at th' Exchange shalt be, nor at the wrangling Bar.

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 307 Peace, factious Monster, born to vex the State, With wrangling Talents form'd for foul Debate.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xi. 187 It is hard to..behold the worshipped men of our wrangling days..become degraded under modern light.

1883 R. Whitelaw tr. Sophocles Antigone 111 At call of Polyneices, stirred By bitter heat of wrangling claims, Against our land they gathered.

Derivatives

ˈwranglingly adv.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [adverb]

disputatively1588

wranglingly1611

contradictiously1615

controversallya1626

controversiallya1639

polemically1653

agonistically1861

disputatiously1864

argumentatively1876

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tempestativement,..contentiously, seditiously, wranglingly.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 65 We should..discourse of it [sc. Religion] not..Wranglingly and Contentiously,..but Cordially and Spiritually.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	wrangling
释义	wranglingn. Brit. /ˈraŋɡlɪŋ/, /ˈraŋɡl̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈræŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ/ Etymology: < wrangle v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of the verb; noisy quarrelling. ΘΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel flitingc1200 chidec1325 bicker1330 janglingc1330 chiding1340 wrangling1377 brawling1393 altercationc1405 words1410 brabblementa1563 wording1564 brabblery1567 bickering1573 jarring1574 bickerment1586 frapling1600 brangling1611 jangle1641 campling1660 frabble1685 collieshangie1737 flickering1776 wranglea1797 brabbling1858 bassa-bassa1956 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iv. 34 There as wratthe and wranglyng is þere wynne þei siluer. 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 14 As for such other wranglyng..shall after be spoken of by further occasion. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Contèsa,..a strife, a debate or wrangling. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 137 Mars..causes discord and wrangling. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. 119 Though wild debate And wrangling rends our infant state. 1882 C. Dilke in S. Gwynn & G. M. Tuckwell Life Sir C. W. Dilke (1917) I. 426 Much unseemly wrangling would be prevented for many years. figurative.1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C2^v 'Twill become ye, well, when wrangling wrestles with such violent iniurie. b. Controversial argument or debate; contentious disputation. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] pleac1275 distancec1325 stance14.. in controversyc1432 disceptation1447 disputation1489 disception1492 concertation1509 controversity1528 contending1561 fending and proving1583 digladiation?1591 bandying1599 contestation1602 controverting1610 wrangling1612 contesting1616 rixation1623 contestion1632 controversarya1635 contest1642 vitilitigation1647 ergoteering1687 sparring1755 hash1789 controversying1865 argle-bargle1872 wringle-wrangle1882 argy-bargy1887 polemicizing1948 va-et-vient1959 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xix. 219 There falleth out amongst them oft-times..much wrangling about the questions. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 25 What wrangling the Bishops and Monks had about the reading, or not reading of Origen. 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants (1692) ii. ii. 71 Philosophy..became little else than an Art of Rangling upon a multitude of Idle Questions. 1720 S. Payne in R. Cumberland Sanchoniatho's Phœnician Hist. p. xxvii His Averseness to any thing like Wrangling made him..leave his Book to shift for it self. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 66 All that wrangling and witticism wherewith the prophecies..have been pelted by Freethinkers. 1827 R. Whately Elem. Logic 26 A system of such rules..must, instead of deserving to be called the art of wrangling, be [etc.]. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxv. 436 A refuge from platform oratory and senatorial wrangling. attributive.c1700 J. Pomfret Strephon's Love 10 Those dull, pedantic rules, They had collected from the wrangling schools.1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert i. i Unpractis'd in Disputes, and wrangling Schools. 2. A wrangle; a noisy quarrel. ΘΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of ganglinga1387 altercation1410 brawla1500 heat1549 wranglea1555 brabble1566 paroxysm1578 wrangling1580 brangle1600 branglement1617 rixation1623 row1746 skimmington1753 mêlée1765 breeze1785 squeal1788 hash1789 rook1808 blow-up1809 blowout1825 scena1826 reerie1832 catfight1854 barney1855 wigs on the green1856 bull and cow1859 scrap1890 slanging match1896 snap1897 up-and-downer1927 brannigan1941 rhubarb1941 bitch fight1949 punch-up1958 shout-up1965 shouting match1970 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 129^v They that cannot suffer the wranglings of young married women. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 39 He heard amid the street A wrangling iangling, and a Murmur rude. 1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra Pref. 2 Consider me as a Person that contemns all Wranglings. 1728 J. Swift To Stella in J. Swift et al. Misc. Last vol. 300 Not in Wranglings to engage With such a stupid vicious Age. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings (1790) II. lxx. 530 The wranglings of Cambridge, and the disputations at Oxford, are apt to give young men a controversial turn, which [etc.]. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus ii. i. 66 Truce with these wranglings, and but hear me. 1890 T. De W. Talmage From Manger to Throne 562 Unseemly wranglings concerning who should be greatest in the kingdom of Christ. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wranglingadj. Brit. /ˈraŋɡlɪŋ/, /ˈraŋɡl̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈræŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ/ Etymology: < wrangle v. + -ing suffix². 1. a. That wrangles, quarrels, or disputes; engaged or embroiled in, given or addicted to, noisy altercation or dispute; contentious. ΘΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > quarrelling > in loud or angry manner chidingc1175 janglingc1374 altercand?a1400 wrangling1487 brawling1535 strutting1577 jarring1629 pickeering1651 fratching?1748 bickering1807 fratcheous1807 1487 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 161 Hys atorney ys a wranglyng felow, he wold non odyr mony but nemyng grotes. a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 119 Thow manytycore, ye marmoset..Wranglynge, waywyrde, wytles, wraw, and nothyng meke. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 100 Mars is a wrangling craking wretche. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. xxxiv. 93 The third Hæreticus, a wrangling carle. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxi. 55 It might serve..for a Lesson to wrangling Courtiers. 1718 A. Pope Corr. 18 Jan. (1956) I. 462 The unrighteous labours of wrangling statesmen, and the quarrelsome ones of uncharitable divines. 1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 39 After the death of poor wrangling Dennis. 1820 W. Wordsworth Dogmatic Teachers 2 Ye wrangling Schoolmen, of the scarlet hood! 1825 W. Scott Betrothed Concl., in Tales Crusaders II. 354 For wrangling curs will fight over a banquet as fiercely as over a bare bone. 1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. v. 112 The wrangling nobles of Philistia. figurative and in extended use.1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ddiv A wrangling tongue is the best language thou hast.a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) I. 15 Thy happy stroke can into softness bring Reason, that rough and wrangling thing.1898 G. Meredith Revol. in Odes French Hist. xiii And he, the bright day's husband,..Beheld a wrangling heart, as 'twere her soul On eddies of wild waters cast.1899 A. C. Swinburne Rosamund i. 18 Let no wrangling breath distune the peace That shines..about us. b. Noisy; clamorous; also transferred, jangling. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > noisy fervent1465 brawlinga1568 baw-waw1570 rouncing?1576 ruff-raff1582 reirding1591 wrangling1608 perstreperous1629 ran-tan1630 streperous1637 clamant1639 chiding1648 loudmouth1668 noisy1675 noise-making1678 strepitous1681 dinsome1724 strepent1750 dinny1768 loud-mouthing1788 dinning1813 blatant1816 noisome1825 strepitant1855 polyphloisboisterousa1875 noisesome1925 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound hoarsec1369 ganglinga1398 roughlyc1400 rauk?a1425 rustyc1430 hask?1440 savagea1450 raw1474 hoar?a1505 harsh1530 untunable1545 jarring1552 jarry1582 barking1589 absonant1600 wrangling1608 raucous1615 asper1626 streperous1637 scrannel1638 caterwaulinga1652 unmelodious1665 jangling1667 latrant1702 untuneful1709 raucid1730 unharmonious1742 unmelodized1771 unmelodic1823 raucal1826 rauque1845 raspish1847 serratic1859 jangled1874 jangly1891 amelodic1937 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour > making clamosec1380 criousa1382 clamorousa1554 brawlinga1568 outcrying1593 barking1598 wrangling1608 clamouring1635 clamant1639 hullabalooing1867 conclamant1890 yammering1895 clamatory1900 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. sig. E3^v When the sad nurse to still the wrangling babe, Shall sing the carefull story of my death. 1845 H. W. Longfellow Carillon in Belfry of Bruges ii When the wrangling bells had ended. 1856 C. G. F. Gore Life's Lessons II. 227 Her remote Dale, with its wrangling beck. 1891 Athenæum 15 Aug. 214/1 So has it fared with the marshlands..with their wrangling sea-fowl. 2. Of the nature of wrangling; contentious, noisy, clamorous. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour crying1398 clamorous1526 wrangling1551 blatant1656 obstropolous1748 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > noisy or angry > of the nature of wrangling1551 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 43 Wherof this auctor may not thinke nowe as vpon a wranglyng argument, to satisfie a coniecture diuised. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §6. 68 To find him busie in wrangling altercation. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 57 Because hee may not as a Judge sit out the wrangling noyse of litigious Courts. 1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xix. 180 This wrangling piece of Learning. 1722 Horrobin in J. Keble Life T. Wilson (1863) 507 The wrangling, jangling disputes about the Divinity of our Saviour. 1753 J. Collier Art Tormenting (1811) 216 Some wrangling dispute or other that shall sour the whole company. 3. Marked or characterized by noisy or contentious disputation or altercation. ΘΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > noisy or angry wrangling1576 camping1642 wording1682 altercative1702 rowy1870 campling1881 1576 G. Whetstone Garden of Vnthriftinesse 97 in Rocke of Regard A wrangling hate, where once was passing loue. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. iv. 54 Accursed and vnquiet wrangling daies. View more context for this quotation 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 251 Our wrangling humour and desire to be cavilling about questions disputable. 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks ii. 61 He sees no wrangling courts, no lawes undone By sword. 1656 A. Cowley Destinie in Pindaric Odes iii Thou neither great at Court,..Nor at th' Exchange shalt be, nor at the wrangling Bar. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 307 Peace, factious Monster, born to vex the State, With wrangling Talents form'd for foul Debate. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xi. 187 It is hard to..behold the worshipped men of our wrangling days..become degraded under modern light. 1883 R. Whitelaw tr. Sophocles Antigone 111 At call of Polyneices, stirred By bitter heat of wrangling claims, Against our land they gathered. Derivatives ˈwranglingly adv. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [adverb] disputatively1588 wranglingly1611 contradictiously1615 controversallya1626 controversiallya1639 polemically1653 agonistically1861 disputatiously1864 argumentatively1876 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tempestativement,..contentiously, seditiously, wranglingly. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 65 We should..discourse of it [sc. Religion] not..Wranglingly and Contentiously,..but Cordially and Spiritually. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1377adj.1487
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