wrangle vs wangle :

wrangle or wangle

If you deviously manage to obtain something you wangle it: “I wangled an invitation to Jessica’s party by hinting that I would be inviting her to our house on the lake this summer.” But if you argue with someone, you wrangle with them: “Once I got to the party, Jessica’s attitude irritated me so much that we wound up wrangling constantly during it.” Of course cowboys wrangle cattle, and specialists wrangle other animal species in films.

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Definitions

  • n  an angry dispute
  • n  an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  • v  to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively
    The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street
  • v  herd and care for
    wrangle horses

  • n  an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery
  • v  achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
  • v  tamper, with the purpose of deception
News & Articles

  • Brennan Rocks the Boat With Deputy CIA Pick
    Let’s say you’re the newly appointed head of the CIA and you’re plotting a strategy to wrangle the famously unruly work force. Now imagine your deputy, a widely-admired CIA veteran, announces he’s going to step down after 33 years of hard service. What do you do? You could replace him from within the Agency ranks—that’s a surefire crowd pleaser. Or you could tap an experienced former ...
    June 14, 2013 - Swampland
  • Defense Industry Focused on Sequestration
    No one has been able to successfully wrangle Congress into reaching a grand bargain to reduce the deficit. But it’s not for lack of trying.
    June 13, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News
  • Inside the Beltway: Unifying conservatives by 2014
    Organizers behind the bodacious "Road to Majority" conference are determined to wrangle conservatives onto the same page as the 2014 midterm elections loom. The event, virtually ignored so far by the mainstream press, begins Thursday at a hotel just three blocks from the White House. "This conference is a chance ...
    June 13, 2013 - The Washington Times

  • Gillibrand aims to increase broadband
    (WBNG Binghamton) While Congress continues to wangle over a new Farm Bill, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing to provides rural farmers better connections.
    July 12, 2013 - WBNG Binghamton
  • Gillibrand aims to increase broadband
    (WBNG Binghamton) While Congress continues to wangle over a new Farm Bill, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing to provides rural farmers better connections.
    July 12, 2013 - WBNG Binghamton