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Definition of Brangled
1. brangle [v] - See also: brangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brangled
Literary usage of Brangled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"His accounts are so brangled I could make nothing of 'em. ... silk or cotton that
is very much entangled, and not easily wound, is called a brangled mess. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"Mr. Halliwell says, “brangled, confused, entangled, complicated. ... con.
fused and complicated account is called “a brangled account.” Cut/non. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"'brangled', in prov. use: ' His accounts are so brangled I could make nothing
of 'em' (Northampton) ; see EDD. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"You've gotten them things into sich a brangled mess it'll tak' me ... was that
brangled it took three lawyers most on a year to put things ..."
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