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wraggling

wraggling is the present participle and gerund of wraggle.

Meaning of wraggle

Verb (1)

wraggle (third-person singular simple present wraggles, present participle wraggling, simple past and past participle wraggled)

  1. To wag about with a wiggling motion.
    • I going, he followed, and following fingered me, just as your worship does now; but I struggled and straggled, and wriggled and wraggled, and at last cried vale, valete, as I do now, with this fragment Of a rhyme,1885, Thomas Middleton, Arthur Henry Bullen, The Works of Thomas Middleton

Verb (2)

wraggle (third-person singular simple present wraggles, present participle wraggling, simple past and past participle wraggled)

  1. To noisily try to convince others.
    • "The crisis of Olympia's destiny will come and pass," Stevens fretted, "and the die be cast against her while her people are wraggling over... 'bonds.'"2002, Robert E. Ficken, Washington Territory, page 113
  2. To pester.
    • They represent the first record of Fur Seals in this area and it is intented that meteorological and hydrological conditions in the Tasman Sea during austral winter have wraggled to the north young Fur Seals from probably south-australian populations.1936, Mammalia: - Volume 39, page 504

Questions about wraggling

What is wraggling the present participle and gerund of?
Wraggling is the present participle and gerund of wraggle.

Words near wraggling in the dictionary

  1. Wragg
  2. Wragge
  3. wraggle
  4. wraggled
  5. wraggles
  6. wraggling
  7. Wraggs
  8. wrain-bolt
  9. wrain-bolts
  10. wraith
  11. wraithlike

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