wranglesome
adjEtymology From wrangle + -some.
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Characterised or marked by wrangling; inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
- They remind one of wranglesome children- perpetually plotting , and counterplotting against each other1830, John Fanning Watson, Annals of Philadelphia:
- “Dinna be so wranglesome, Lael Click. It doesna become you.” She shot back, “I'm not the only wranglesome one here!”2009, Laura Frantz, The Frontiersman's Daughter:
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- Pike got drunk and was very “wranglesome.”2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving: