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fankled

fankled is the simple past and past participle of fankle.

Meaning of fankle

Verb

fankle (third-person singular simple present fankles, present participle fankling, simple past and past participle fankled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To tangle or entangle.

See all 2 meanings of fankle

Adjective

fankled (comparative more fankled, superlative most fankled)

  1. (Scotland) Tangled.
    • I did not like the bushes where I was sitting. Ye could not see in. It was just leaves and leaves and all thick branches all fankled, all stuff poking out, fuzzy stuff and poison too, so ye could not go in [...].2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 110

Forms of fankled

comparativemore fankled
superlativemost fankled

Origin of fankled

From fankle + -ed.

Questions about fankled

What does fankled mean?
Fankled means tangled.
What is fankled the simple past and past participle of?
Fankled is the simple past and past participle of fankle.
What part of speech is fankled?
Fankled is an adjective.

Words near fankled in the dictionary

  1. fankid
  2. fankids
  3. fankind
  4. fanking
  5. fankle
  6. fankled
  7. fankles
  8. fankling
  9. fanks
  10. fanlation
  11. fanlations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fankled (page history and authors); fankle (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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