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spangled

/ˈspæŋ.ɡəld/

spangled is the simple past and past participle of spangle.

Adjective

spangled (comparative more spangled, superlative most spangled)

  1. Having spangles.
    • I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216
    Antonyms:
    unspangled
  2. (UK, slang) drunk or high.

Meaning of spangle

Verb

spangle (third-person singular simple present spangles, present participle spangling, simple past and past participle spangled)

  1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle.
    • What ſtars do ſpangle heauen with ſuch beautie, / As thoſe two eyes become that heauenly face?c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To adorn or decorate (something).
    • It seems it is in fashion with you to sugar your papers with Carnation phrases, and spangle your speeches with new quodled words.1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC; The Simple...
  3. (intransitive) To flash, glitter, or sparkle.
    • The gifts are differing, being diverse; their administrations are differing, and the operations of them also are differing, though all those things are from that one and the self-same Spirit, working in every one severally as he pleases. All these things will spangle in the New Jerusalem, and carry...1665, John Bunyan, “ The Holy City; or, The New Jerusalem: […]”, in Henry Stebbing, editor, The Entire Works of John Bunyan, […], volume I, London: James S[prent] Virtue, […], published 1863, →OCLC...

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Antonyms of spangled

Forms of spangled

comparativemore spangled
superlativemost spangled

Words formed from spangled

Phrases with spangled

Words that rhyme with spangled

Questions about spangled

What does spangled mean?
Spangled means having spangles.
What is spangled the simple past and past participle of?
Spangled is the simple past and past participle of spangle.
What part of speech is spangled?
Spangled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce spangled?
Spangled is pronounced /ˈspæŋ.ɡəld/.

Words near spangled in the dictionary

  1. spanghews
  2. spanging
  3. spangite
  4. spangle
  5. spangle gold
  6. spangled
  7. spangled coquette
  8. spangled coquettes
  9. spangled kookaburra
  10. spangled kookaburras
  11. spangledst

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