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brangle

/ˈbɹæŋ.ɡəl/

brangle noun: a squabble.

Noun

brangle (plural brangles)

  1. (archaic) A squabble.
    • "I was a fool, it's a fact, to let any such brangle come up," said Legree; "but, when the boy set up his will, he had to be broke in."1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Verb

brangle (third-person singular simple present brangles, present participle brangling, simple past and past participle brangled)

  1. To squabble.
    • "As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered.
      "Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"1999, Julia Justiss, The Wedding Gamble, page 104

brangle meaning in Bengali

brangle in Bengali

ঝগড়া, ঝগড়া করা

Forms of brangle

Noun
pluralbrangles
Verb
third-person singular presentbrangles
present participlebrangling
past participlebrangled
pastbrangled

Origin of brangle

Perhaps related to branle.

Words formed from brangle

Words that rhyme with brangle

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about brangle

What does brangle mean?
Brangle means a squabble.
What is brangle in Bengali?
Brangle in Bengali is ঝগড়া, ঝগড়া করা. See Brangle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is brangle?
Brangle can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce brangle?
Brangle is pronounced /ˈbɹæŋ.ɡəl/.
What is the plural of brangle?
The plural of brangle is brangles.

Words near brangle in the dictionary

  1. Branfoot
  2. Branfoots
  3. Branford
  4. brang
  5. Brangelina
  6. brangle
  7. brangled
  8. branglement
  9. brangler
  10. branglers
  11. brangles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brangle (page history and authors); brangle (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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