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单词 wrangling
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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. C2v '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. 129v 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. E3v 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).
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