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wraggle¹

  • /ˈɹæɡ.əl/

Sounds like raggle · Rhymes with -æɡəl

Where it comes from

Blend of wriggle + waggle.

verb wraggles · wraggling · wraggled

  1. To wag about with a wiggling motion. I going, he followed, and following fingered me, just as your worship does now; but I struggled and straggled, and wriggled and wraggled, and at last cried vale, valete, as I do now, with this fragment Of a rhyme,

wraggle²

  • /ˈɹæɡ.əl/

Sounds like raggle · Rhymes with -æɡəl

Where it comes from

Blend of wrangle + haggle.

verb wraggles · wraggling · wraggled

  1. To noisily try to convince others. "The crisis of Olympia's destiny will come and pass," Stevens fretted, "and the die be cast against her while her people are wraggling over... 'bonds.'"
  2. To pester. They represent the first record of Fur Seals in this area and it is intented that meteorological and hydrological conditions in the Tasman Sea during austral winter have wraggled to the north young Fur Seals from probably south-australian populations.

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@misc{wraggle_2026,
  title = {wraggle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wraggle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}