‘I can propose it,’ van Rijn said carefully. ‘After a month's wringle-wrangle, I get voted no. They won't believe either, SI would do something so bad like that, for some sternly commercial reason.’1969, Poul Anderson, Satan's World:
A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination ITS troglodyte was flung around some during the Usenet and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride.1996, compiled by Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, page 453, definition of troglodyte
You know the foolishness of fighting; here is a haven of rest; and you must needs go back to wringle wrangle among the literary men of London.1883, Sir Walter Besant, The Captains' Room etc., page 25: