Wrangling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wrangle \Wran"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wrangled}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Wrangling}.] [OE. wranglen to wrestle. See {Wrong},
     {Wring}.]
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     1. To argue; to debate; to dispute. [Obs.]
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     2. To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to
        brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings."
        --Macaulay.
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              For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. --Shak.
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              He did not know what it was to wrangle on
              indifferent points.                   --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wrangling
       n : an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: {haggle},
            {haggling}, {wrangle}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrangling":
     Kilkenny cats, aggressive, altercation, apologetics, apologia,
     apology, argument, argumentation, bellicose, belligerent, bicker,
     bickering, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, combat, combative,
     conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation,
     controversy, cut and thrust, debate, defense, disputation,
     disputatious, dispute, divisive, enmity, eristic, factional,
     factious, fighting, flyting, hassle, hostility, hubbub, irascible,
     irritable, litigation, litigious, logomachy, paper war, partisan,
     passage of arms, polarizing, polemic, polemics, pugnacious,
     quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb,
     scrapping, set-to, shrewish, squabbling, strife, struggle,
     verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words