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brangling

brangling is the present participle and gerund of brangle.

Meaning of brangle

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

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Noun

brangling (plural branglings)

  1. (archaic) A quarrel, a tiff.
    • […] she doth not set Businesse back by unquiet branglings, and findefaulting Quarrells […]1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

Forms of brangling

pluralbranglings

Questions about brangling

What does brangling mean?
Brangling means a quarrel, a tiff.
What is brangling the present participle and gerund of?
Brangling is the present participle and gerund of brangle.
What part of speech is brangling?
Brangling is a noun.
What is the plural of brangling?
The plural of brangling is branglings.

Words near brangling in the dictionary

  1. brangled
  2. branglement
  3. brangler
  4. branglers
  5. brangles
  6. brangling
  7. branglings
  8. Brangus
  9. Branguses
  10. Brangwyn
  11. Brangwyns

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