2. Adjective. (Scotland) Tangled. ¹
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Definition of Fankled
1. fankle [v] - See also: fankle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fankled
Literary usage of Fankled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"The only fear I had was o' my long spurs ;—but they never got fankled ; and I
finished with doing the 47th Proposition of Euclid, with mathematical ..."
2. Law Lyrics by Robert Bird (1887)
"I strove to find my thread— 'Twas like a thread of spider, Up-fankled in my head—
And still the breach grew wider. A pot-lid seemed my wig ! ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1867)
"The only fear I had was o' my lang spurs :—• but they never got fankled ; and I
finished with doing the ..."
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