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单词 wraggle
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wragglev.1

Forms: In Middle English wragel-, 1500s Scottish wraggil, wraigle, 1600s wragle.
Etymology: See wrag v. and -le suffix, and compare West Frisian wraggelje to waddle, Low German dialect wraggeln to wiggle, to wriggle.
Obsolete. rare.
1. intransitive. To struggle or strive; to resist.
ΚΠ
?c1225 [see wraggling n. at Derivatives].
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 190 For þe ȝet [sic] i fondunges. þet beoð þe deofles swenges. waggið oðerhwiles. & [ha] moten wreastlin aȝein wið strong wraglunge.
2. To wriggle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle
wiggle?c1225
wriggle1495
wraggle?a1513
wrabble1513
sprinklea1522
wrig1599
squirm1691
scrigglea1701
wraxle1746
squiggle1816
wiggle-waggle1827
swiggle1837
scurrifunge1894
?a1513 [see wraggling adj. at Derivatives].
1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. C2 I strugled and stragled, and wrigled and wragled.

Derivatives

ˈwraggling n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > striving or struggling
wrestlingc890
wragging?c1225
wraggling?c1225
strugglingc1386
straining1580
contention1583
strift1612
strifea1616
striving?1615
stickle1652
agonism1688
strain1693
struggle1833
floundering1868
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > striving in opposition
wragging?c1225
wraggling?c1225
countermoil1581
gainstriving1583
contrasting1688
counter-striving1710
combating1870
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 275 Þe oðer bitternesse is in wrestlung & in wragelunge aȝeines fondunge.
ˈwraggling adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > wriggling
wraggling?a1513
wriggling1567
friggling1621
wrinkling1653
squirming1860
wrigglesome1891
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Wan wraiglane wasp.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

wragglev.2

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwraggle.
(See quot. 1875 and cf. raggle v.)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > other processes
raggle1525
pin1680
rusticate1715
heart1776
tool1815
boast1823
fine-axe1834
ashlar1836
riprap1837
stroke1842
ditch1865
wraggle1875
bush-hammera1884
thorough-bind1884
1875 Gillies in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1875 (1876) 8 246 I could make out two or three holes..where the silk lining..was raised and wraggled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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