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Hangle vs Bangle - What's the difference?

hangle | bangle |

As nouns the difference between hangle and bangle

is that hangle is a hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger while bangle is a rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.

As a verb bangle is

to waste, fritter (away).

hangle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
  • A form of hanger by which the scabbard of a sword was suspended, attached not necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, one over the left hip, the other near the middle of the back.

    • bangle

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia bangle) From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (bangl)
  • (obsolete) To waste, fritter (away).
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.273:
    • Thus betwixt hope and fear, suspicions, angersbetwixt falling in, falling out, etc., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times […].

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