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fangles

fangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fangle.

Meaning of fangle

Verb

fangle (third-person singular simple present fangles, present participle fangling, simple past and past participle fangled)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
    • […]not hereby to control and new fangle the Scripture, God forbid, but to mark how corruption and apostasy crept in by degrees, and to gather up wherever we find the remaining sparks of original truth,[…]1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
  3. (dialectal, obsolete) To waste time; trifle.

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Questions about fangles

What is fangles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fangle.

Words near fangles in the dictionary

  1. fangirly
  2. fangish
  3. fangite
  4. fangle
  5. fangled
  6. fangles
  7. fangless
  8. fanglet
  9. fanglets
  10. fanglike
  11. fangling

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