wanglev.¹

Etymology: Perhaps an altered form of waggle v., due to the influence of the dialect wankle to totter (apparently rare) or of its source wankle adj. (Old English wancol) unsteady, tottering. Compare Norwegian vangla to roam about, (of weather) to be unsteady.

dialect.

intransitive. Of a thing: To move loosely or shakily on its base or in its place of attachment. Of a person: To go unsteadily.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)]

hobblec1330

wave1406

stamperc1450

fleet15..

titubate1540

wamble1589

tilt1594

vacillate1598

waggle1611

wimple1819

wangle1820

waver1841

lurch1851

woggle1871

teeter1904

1820 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire Wangle, to totter or vibrate. See Junius in voce, wanckle.

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Wangle, to be unsteady, totter.

1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Wangle, to totter, or shake to its fall; of a wall, building, &c.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Wangle, to totter, to walk feebly.

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Wangle, to rock, or shake, noisily.

1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk Gloss. Wangle, to shake, to totter, to waver; to be in a sensitive state... Ex.—Thoo mun put it varry wangling (in setting a trap).

Derivatives

ˈwangling adj. (in quot. apparently 'rambling').

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] > copious or lengthy (of speech)

facundious1430

clattered1582

voluble1598

garrulous1839

peripatetic1864

wangling1869

yacketing1958

1869 G. J. Chester Transatl. Sketches 325 The old gentleman in the pulpit meanwhile drawling out a long, wangling, extempore prayer.

ˈwangler n.

ΚΠ

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Wangler, an unstable person.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wanglev.²

Brit.

/ˈwaŋɡl/, U.S.

/ˈwæŋɡ(ə)l/

Etymology: Of uncertain origin. First recorded, as printers' slang, in 1888; current among soldiers in the war of 1914–1918, and hence in general colloquial use. There is no evidence of any connection with the northerly dialect word wangle v.¹ Probably, like many other slang words, it was formed involuntarily, under the influence of an obscure sense of phonetic symbolism; the suggestion may have come < waggle v.

slang and colloquial.

1. transitive.

a. To accomplish (something) in an irregular way by scheming or contrivance; to bring about or obtain by indirect or insidious means (something not obtainable openly); to manipulate, ‘fake’ (an account, report, prices). Also reflexive and const. adverbial phr.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > be unprincipled in [verb (transitive)] > manage in underhand manner

rig1826

wangle1888

fluff1957

the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot (a purpose) or hatch (a plot [verb (transitive)] > bring or get by intrigue

shuffle1583

intrigue1672

wangle1888

swing1934

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > obtain fraudulently

wilea1400

lurch1530

fox1596

shirk1635

rook1647

trick1662

pigeon1675

sharp1699

cheat1712

fob1792

snakea1861

wangle1888

slip1890

finagle1926

skuldug1936

swizz1961

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 153 Wangle, a slang term used by printers to express arranging or ‘faking’ matters to one's own satisfaction or convenience.

1917 Edinb. Rev. July 45 No market is ever ‘free’: probe it deep enough, and..monopolies will..be found, in many cases deliberately ‘wangling’ prices and limiting production to sustain them.

1917 Bulletin 28 Dec. 3/2 He had come in from the North Atlantic Cruiser Patrol, and when in home waters had ‘wangled’ a few days' leave.

1918 ‘B. Cable’ Air Men o' War xi. 143 He had been..planning..how to apply and how to get quickly through his training, and ways of wangling it to get to this Squadron.

1922 Sat. Rev. 22 Dec. 953 President Wilson had to ‘wangle’ through Congress an act to restore the British treaty rights.

1942 W. Lewis Let. ?26 June (1963) 324 In the last war like yourself I joined the army, instead of wangling myself into some safe job in London.

1961 C. V. Wedgwood Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 186 In fact, he would bribe and wangle himself back into the possession of his illicit gains.

b. To work, move, etc., by some device or trick.

ΚΠ

1931 S. H. Guest tr. P. Poiret My First Fifty Years 222 The cellars were flooded; one went about in a boat wangled by an oar.

2. intransitive. To obtain something or get somewhere by irregular means, scheming, etc.; to use irregular means to accomplish a purpose. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > be unprincipled [verb (intransitive)] > act in irregular or devious way

wangle1918

1918 Sat. Evening Post 19 Oct. 93/1 And wet—always, always wet, unless the weather is clear and the sea is calm—but good sea boats. They [sc. submarine chasers] wangle through somehow. They weather it out.

1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xxii. 190 He agitated for a transfer..and to his joy he wangled back to the Cockneys.

1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xxvi. 222 He also knew that a man who has ‘wangled’..may find himself..thrust rudely into the trenches.

1921 Glasgow Herald 16 June 9 We wangled in, an' we'll wangle oot.

3. transitive. To influence or induce (a person) to do something. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > to do something

procurea1325

draw1425

inducec1450

draw1531

obtain1558

reduce?a1560

weighc1571

charma1592

obtain1606

bias1660

gain1681

import1825

wangle1926

1926 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Blatchington Tangle xxi. 147 He was always on at me just lately to get Lady Blatchington to sell him the rubies. He said I could wangle her.

1928 Daily Express 27 Dec. 5/4 Aren't you glad..you wangled the old lady to relinquish the key.

Derivatives

ˈwangler n. one who ‘wangles’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives

swikec1000

wielerOE

adderOE

knavec1275

treacherc1290

guiler1303

gabbera1325

tricharda1327

faitoura1340

jugglera1340

beswiker1340

wernard1362

knackerc1380

beguilera1382

deceiver1382

illusor1382

deceivant1393

fob1393

falsea1400

mocker?c1450

feature14..

deceptor1484

seductor1490

bullera1500

troker?a1500

craftera1529

circumventorc1540

bobber1542

cloyner?1550

illuder?1550

tricker1550

double-dealer1567

treacherer1571

falsary1573

abuser1579

falser1579

treachetour1590

deluder1592

ignis fatuus1592

foolmonger1593

prestigiator1595

aguiler1598

baffler1606

cog-foist1606

feaguer1610

guile-man1614

hocus-pocus1624

colt1632

hoodwink1638

blindfoldera1649

napper1653

cheat1664

fooler1677

underdealer1682

circumvenerc1686

chincher1688

dodger1698

nickum1699

sheep-shearer1699

trickster1711

bilker1717

trickologist1723

taker-in1776

bilk1790

duper1792

Yorkshire bite1801

intake1808

gammoner1819

doer1840

delusionist1841

fiddler1857

snide1874

hoodwinker1884

tanger1886

take-down1888

tiddlywinker1893

wangler1912

frost1914

twicer1924

lurkman1945

jive-ass1964

skanker1973

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of straightforwardness or uprightness > person

wangler1912

1912 E. Wallace Private Selby xxxi. 281 You're a bloomin' wangler, Short.

1915 John Bull 27 Mar. 16/2 We regret to see them reduced to the level of vulgar weight wanglers, and so far as the bread business is concerned, we are quite prepared to believe that it was all the fault of a..machine.

1920 Blackwood's Mag. June 790/1 We took it in turns to stay in the garden against the return of the motor wanglers.

ˈwangling n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving

swikingc1000

blindfolding?c1225

deceivancec1330

trechettingc1330

jugglingc1380

beguilingc1400

deceivingc1400

fagec1400

delusionc1420

sophisticationc1450

circumvention1534

illudinga1547

cheateryc1555

cheatingc1555

crossing1592

tricking1595

wiling?a1600

circumventing1603

practice1622

cheat1641

deluding1645

underdealing1649

amusement1658

conveyancing1676

bubbling1700

jockeyshipa1763

overreachinga1774

jockeying1779

beguilement1805

gaggery1819

trickstering1821

Jewing1842

wool-pulling1843

rigging1846

hoodwinking1858

old soldierism1866

old soldiering1867

fiddling1884

gold-bricking1901

wangling1911

finagling1926

hyping1968

the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > getting or bringing about by

wangling1911

1911 Standard 12 July 10 He denied that he had ever been asked by a driver to ‘fake’ a meter although he had heard banter in the garage about the ‘wangling’ of meters.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wangle
释义	wanglen. Brit. /ˈwaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈwæŋɡ(ə)l/ Etymology: < wangle v.² colloquial. An act of wangling; an irregular or indirect method of working; something dishonestly contrived or manipulated. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of straightforwardness or uprightness > instance(s) of winding1621 circumambages1649 crookedness1869 wangle1915 1915 Notes & Queries 23 Jan. 66 The explanation given was: ‘It's a wangle between this Office and the Inland Revenue.’ 1923 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 11/1 Mr. Justice Sargant: You can't expect the Royal Commission to be bound to what might be called a ‘wangle’ of this sort. 1927 Observer 27 Mar. 16/5 Men who sought to achieve nothing by wangle or intrigue. 1943 H. A. Smith Life in Putty Knife Factory xii. 183 They [sc. people of New York City] have made a precise science out of the wangle. 1959 E. Pound Thrones xcvii. 29 But by that time they found some other wangle. 1977 P. Dickinson Walking Dead ii. ii. 114 I worked a wangle. I got a line on the Minister of Tourism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wanglev.¹ Etymology: Perhaps an altered form of waggle v., due to the influence of the dialect wankle to totter (apparently rare) or of its source wankle adj. (Old English wancol) unsteady, tottering. Compare Norwegian vangla to roam about, (of weather) to be unsteady. dialect. intransitive. Of a thing: To move loosely or shakily on its base or in its place of attachment. Of a person: To go unsteadily. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] hobblec1330 wave1406 stamperc1450 fleet15.. titubate1540 wamble1589 tilt1594 vacillate1598 waggle1611 wimple1819 wangle1820 waver1841 lurch1851 woggle1871 teeter1904 1820 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire Wangle, to totter or vibrate. See Junius in voce, wanckle. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Wangle, to be unsteady, totter. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Wangle, to totter, or shake to its fall; of a wall, building, &c. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Wangle, to totter, to walk feebly. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Wangle, to rock, or shake, noisily. 1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk Gloss. Wangle, to shake, to totter, to waver; to be in a sensitive state... Ex.—Thoo mun put it varry wangling (in setting a trap). Derivatives ˈwangling adj. (in quot. apparently 'rambling'). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] > copious or lengthy (of speech) facundious1430 clattered1582 voluble1598 garrulous1839 peripatetic1864 wangling1869 yacketing1958 1869 G. J. Chester Transatl. Sketches 325 The old gentleman in the pulpit meanwhile drawling out a long, wangling, extempore prayer. ˈwangler n. ΚΠ 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Wangler, an unstable person. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wanglev.² Brit. /ˈwaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈwæŋɡ(ə)l/ Etymology: Of uncertain origin. First recorded, as printers' slang, in 1888; current among soldiers in the war of 1914–1918, and hence in general colloquial use. There is no evidence of any connection with the northerly dialect word wangle v.¹ Probably, like many other slang words, it was formed involuntarily, under the influence of an obscure sense of phonetic symbolism; the suggestion may have come < waggle v. slang and colloquial. 1. transitive. a. To accomplish (something) in an irregular way by scheming or contrivance; to bring about or obtain by indirect or insidious means (something not obtainable openly); to manipulate, ‘fake’ (an account, report, prices). Also reflexive and const. adverbial phr. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > be unprincipled in [verb (transitive)] > manage in underhand manner rig1826 wangle1888 fluff1957 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot (a purpose) or hatch (a plot [verb (transitive)] > bring or get by intrigue shuffle1583 intrigue1672 wangle1888 swing1934 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > obtain fraudulently wilea1400 lurch1530 fox1596 shirk1635 rook1647 trick1662 pigeon1675 sharp1699 cheat1712 fob1792 snakea1861 wangle1888 slip1890 finagle1926 skuldug1936 swizz1961 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 153 Wangle, a slang term used by printers to express arranging or ‘faking’ matters to one's own satisfaction or convenience. 1917 Edinb. Rev. July 45 No market is ever ‘free’: probe it deep enough, and..monopolies will..be found, in many cases deliberately ‘wangling’ prices and limiting production to sustain them. 1917 Bulletin 28 Dec. 3/2 He had come in from the North Atlantic Cruiser Patrol, and when in home waters had ‘wangled’ a few days' leave. 1918 ‘B. Cable’ Air Men o' War xi. 143 He had been..planning..how to apply and how to get quickly through his training, and ways of wangling it to get to this Squadron. 1922 Sat. Rev. 22 Dec. 953 President Wilson had to ‘wangle’ through Congress an act to restore the British treaty rights. 1942 W. Lewis Let. ?26 June (1963) 324 In the last war like yourself I joined the army, instead of wangling myself into some safe job in London. 1961 C. V. Wedgwood Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 186 In fact, he would bribe and wangle himself back into the possession of his illicit gains. b. To work, move, etc., by some device or trick. ΚΠ 1931 S. H. Guest tr. P. Poiret My First Fifty Years 222 The cellars were flooded; one went about in a boat wangled by an oar. 2. intransitive. To obtain something or get somewhere by irregular means, scheming, etc.; to use irregular means to accomplish a purpose. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > be unprincipled [verb (intransitive)] > act in irregular or devious way wangle1918 1918 Sat. Evening Post 19 Oct. 93/1 And wet—always, always wet, unless the weather is clear and the sea is calm—but good sea boats. They [sc. submarine chasers] wangle through somehow. They weather it out. 1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xxii. 190 He agitated for a transfer..and to his joy he wangled back to the Cockneys. 1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xxvi. 222 He also knew that a man who has ‘wangled’..may find himself..thrust rudely into the trenches. 1921 Glasgow Herald 16 June 9 We wangled in, an' we'll wangle oot. 3. transitive. To influence or induce (a person) to do something. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > to do something procurea1325 draw1425 inducec1450 draw1531 obtain1558 reduce?a1560 weighc1571 charma1592 obtain1606 bias1660 gain1681 import1825 wangle1926 1926 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Blatchington Tangle xxi. 147 He was always on at me just lately to get Lady Blatchington to sell him the rubies. He said I could wangle her. 1928 Daily Express 27 Dec. 5/4 Aren't you glad..you wangled the old lady to relinquish the key. Derivatives ˈwangler n. one who ‘wangles’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives swikec1000 wielerOE adderOE knavec1275 treacherc1290 guiler1303 gabbera1325 tricharda1327 faitoura1340 jugglera1340 beswiker1340 wernard1362 knackerc1380 beguilera1382 deceiver1382 illusor1382 deceivant1393 fob1393 falsea1400 mocker?c1450 feature14.. deceptor1484 seductor1490 bullera1500 troker?a1500 craftera1529 circumventorc1540 bobber1542 cloyner?1550 illuder?1550 tricker1550 double-dealer1567 treacherer1571 falsary1573 abuser1579 falser1579 treachetour1590 deluder1592 ignis fatuus1592 foolmonger1593 prestigiator1595 aguiler1598 baffler1606 cog-foist1606 feaguer1610 guile-man1614 hocus-pocus1624 colt1632 hoodwink1638 blindfoldera1649 napper1653 cheat1664 fooler1677 underdealer1682 circumvenerc1686 chincher1688 dodger1698 nickum1699 sheep-shearer1699 trickster1711 bilker1717 trickologist1723 taker-in1776 bilk1790 duper1792 Yorkshire bite1801 intake1808 gammoner1819 doer1840 delusionist1841 fiddler1857 snide1874 hoodwinker1884 tanger1886 take-down1888 tiddlywinker1893 wangler1912 frost1914 twicer1924 lurkman1945 jive-ass1964 skanker1973 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of straightforwardness or uprightness > person wangler1912 1912 E. Wallace Private Selby xxxi. 281 You're a bloomin' wangler, Short. 1915 John Bull 27 Mar. 16/2 We regret to see them reduced to the level of vulgar weight wanglers, and so far as the bread business is concerned, we are quite prepared to believe that it was all the fault of a..machine. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. June 790/1 We took it in turns to stay in the garden against the return of the motor wanglers. ˈwangling n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving swikingc1000 blindfolding?c1225 deceivancec1330 trechettingc1330 jugglingc1380 beguilingc1400 deceivingc1400 fagec1400 delusionc1420 sophisticationc1450 circumvention1534 illudinga1547 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 crossing1592 tricking1595 wiling?a1600 circumventing1603 practice1622 cheat1641 deluding1645 underdealing1649 amusement1658 conveyancing1676 bubbling1700 jockeyshipa1763 overreachinga1774 jockeying1779 beguilement1805 gaggery1819 trickstering1821 Jewing1842 wool-pulling1843 rigging1846 hoodwinking1858 old soldierism1866 old soldiering1867 fiddling1884 gold-bricking1901 wangling1911 finagling1926 hyping1968 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > getting or bringing about by wangling1911 1911 Standard 12 July 10 He denied that he had ever been asked by a driver to ‘fake’ a meter although he had heard banter in the garage about the ‘wangling’ of meters. 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wanglen.

wanglev.1

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