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vexels

vexels is the plural of vexel.

Meaning of vexel

Noun

vexel (plural vexels)

  1. (US, obsolete, rare) A troublemaker, a person who wants to change things.
    • […] highly sensitized individuals of neurotic tendencies who manifest in their state of unrest a morbid desire to change everything. […] Let us [...] classify such people by combining a Latin and German root and calling the individuals "vexels" (Latin vexare, to shake : German wexeln, to change)....1915, Robert T. Morris, Educational Review ..., page 460

Questions about vexels

What is vexels the plural of?
Vexels is the plural of vexel.

Words near vexels in the dictionary

  1. vexed
  2. vexedly
  3. vexedness
  4. vexeing
  5. vexel
  6. vexels
  7. vexer
  8. vexers
  9. vexes
  10. vexest
  11. vexeth

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