intertwingle

Examples of intertwingle in a sentence

• A writer in the Kansas City "Star" has discovered that there is a "Kansas language." […] To the Kansas list we beg to add a New Jersey word, "intertwingle"—as roots do in the soil.[1917 June 27, “By the Way”, in The Outlook, volume 116, New York, N.Y.: Outlook Co., →OCLC, page 344, column 3:
• Pathos and humour ‘inextricably intertwingled’.1950 December, “Children’s Books, Christmas, 1950. A Personal Choice of a Dozen. [book reviews]”, in The New Era in Home and School, volume...
• Fortunately, these objectives are not only compatible, but are, to use a popular Washington phrase, "inextricably intertwingled."1958, News of the American Alumni Council, Washington, D.C.: American Alumni Council, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:
• I was particularly attracted to her, not only because of her spontaneous eloquence but also because she recognised me as: ‘the gentleman who gets his words all intertwingled’.1984, Stanley Unwin, Deep Joy: Master of the Sproken Word, Whitby, North Yorkshire: Caedmon of Whitby, →ISBN, page 139:

Forms of intertwingle

Origin of intertwingle

PIE word *h₁én Probably a blend of intertwine + intermingle. The word has apparently been coined independently several times: * It was used by the Indian author and translator Manmatha Nath Dutt (1855–1912) in an 1896 work: see the quotation. * It appears to have been used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda: see the quotation. * It was used as a noun by the American-British author Henry James (1843–1916) as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters; and also by the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of his nieces, the Ormond sisters. Sargent was referring to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models or their convoluted poses. (The American artist Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961), one of Henry James’ “intertwingles”, was also a friend and model of Sargent’s.) * The word was used in the urban planning context by Tracy Augur in the 1950s (see the 1954 quotation), and adopted by others including Dennis O’Harrow. Sense 2 (“of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex...

Related words

• intertwingled
• intertwingling
• intertwingularity

Words that rhyme with intertwingle

• single
• mingle
• jingle
• pingle
• tingle
• pringle
• shingle
• dingle
• Fingal
• tringle
• commingle
• intermingle

Questions about intertwingle

What does intertwingle mean?

Intertwingle means to confuse or entangle together; to enmesh, to muddle.

How do you use intertwingle in a sentence?

A writer in the Kansas City "Star" has discovered that there is a "Kansas language." […] To the Kansas list we beg to add a New Jersey word, "intertwingle"—as roots do in the soil.

What part of speech is intertwingle?

Intertwingle is a verb.

How do you pronounce intertwingle?

Intertwingle is pronounced /ˌɪntəˈtwɪŋɡl̩/ (UK).

What is the past tense of intertwingle?

The past tense of intertwingle is intertwingled.