brangle

Meanings

nounbrangle (plural brangles)

archaicA squabble.
"I was a fool, it's a fact, to let any such brangle come up," said Legree; "but, when the boy set up his will, he had to be broke in."
1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

verbbrangle (third-person singular simple present brangles, present participle brangling, simple past and past participle brangled)

present singular third person brangles · participle present brangling · participle past brangled · past brangled

To squabble.
"As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered. "Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"
1999, Julia Justiss, The Wedding Gamble, page 104