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bangling

bangling is the present participle and gerund of bangle.

Meaning of bangle

Verb

bangle (third-person singular simple present bangles, present participle bangling, simple past and past participle bangled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).
    • Thus betwixt hope and fear, suspicions, angers […] betwixt falling in, falling out, etc., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times […]., New York Review Books 2001, p.273
  3. (intransitive) (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
  4. (intransitive) to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.

See all 6 meanings of bangle

Noun

bangling (uncountable)

  1. Contention; squabbling
    • Sir, cannot all this bangling be easily rectified? Cannot the fee be taken with the schedule? Cannot an hour be named, nnd kept, nearer noon?1870, The Lancet

Origin of bangling

From bangle + -ing.

Questions about bangling

What does bangling mean?
Bangling means contention; squabbling.
What is bangling the present participle and gerund of?
Bangling is the present participle and gerund of bangle.
What part of speech is bangling?
Bangling is a noun.

Words near bangling in the dictionary

  1. bangle ears
  2. bangled
  3. bangleless
  4. bangles
  5. bangless
  6. bangling
  7. Banglish
  8. Bango
  9. Bangon
  10. Bangong Co
  11. Bangor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bangling (page history and authors); bangle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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