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wringle-wrangle

noun

Etymology

From wrangle by ablaut reduplication.

Definitions

  1. A verbal argument.

    • ‘I can propose it,’ van Rijn said carefully. ‘After a month's wringle-wrangle, I get voted no. They won't believe either, SI would do something so bad like that, for some sternly commercial reason.’

  2. To argue.

    • You know the foolishness of fighting; here is a haven of rest; and you must needs go back to wringle wrangle among the literary men of London.

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