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Wrangle vs Wangle - What's the difference?

wrangle | wangle |

In intransitive terms the difference between wrangle and wangle

is that wrangle is to bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily while wangle is to achieve through contrivance or cajolery.

In transitive terms the difference between wrangle and wangle

is that wrangle is to involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil while wangle is to falsify, as records.

wrangle

English

Verb

(wrangl)
  • To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
  • * Shakespeare
  • For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle .
  • * Addison
  • He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.
  • to herd horses or other livestock
  • To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
  • * Bishop Robert Sanderson
  • When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found in the end the man that walketh in the safest way, and by the surest line.
  • I don't know how, but she managed to wrangle us four front row seats at tonight's game.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * wrangler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of wrangling.
  • An angry dispute.
  • See also

    * wangle

    wangle

    English

    Verb

    (wangl)
  • To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods.
  • * "if a country such as China decided to wangle various concessions out of the US government" [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/21941.html]
  • To falsify, as records.
  • To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.
  • * "manages to wangle his way into the investigation team" [http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/28/movies/16676327&sec=movies]
  • Derived terms

    * wangler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of wangling
  • See also

    * wrangle