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fangling

fangling is the present participle and gerund 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 fangling

What is fangling the present participle and gerund of?
Fangling is the present participle and gerund of fangle.

Words near fangling in the dictionary

  1. fangles
  2. fangless
  3. fanglet
  4. fanglets
  5. fanglike
  6. fangling
  7. fanglomerate
  8. fanglomerates
  9. Fangman
  10. Fangmans
  11. fangmark

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