wrassle

wrast·le
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UK/ˈɹæsl̩/US/ˈɹæs(ə)l/

verb

To gather with effort.

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Meanings

verbwrassle (third-person singular simple present wrassles, present participle wrassling, simple past and past participle wrassled)

present singular third person wrassles · participle present wrassling · participle past wrassled · past wrassled

  1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of wrestle, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.

    Poor Jody! He ought not to have to wrassle in there by himself.

    1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 8, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, [United States?]: Alien Ebooks, published 2023, →ISBN, page 105
    1 more example

    Miss Reba turned to Boon again. "What you been doing? wrassling with hogs?" / "We got in a mudhole back down the road. We drove up. The automobile's outside now."

    1962 June 4, William Faulkner, chapter V, in The Reivers: A Reminiscence, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 101
  2. Southern USTo gather with effort.

    […] "wrassled" up some fresh sheets for her, […]

    2011 July 15, Ellen James, Doctors in the House, Harlequin+ORM, →ISBN

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with wrassle

castlehassletasselvassalwassailpasselasslesphaceltoll castle
All rhymes →

Sounds the same

rasslewrastle

Anagrams

warless
Cite this entry
APA

wrassle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wrassle

MLA

“wrassle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wrassle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wrassle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wrassle.

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