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单词 wrangler
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wranglern.

Brit. /ˈraŋɡlə/, U.S. /ˈræŋɡ(ə)lər/
Etymology: < wrangle v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who wrangles or quarrels; an angry or noisy disputer or arguer.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who
scoldc1175
brawler1377
chider1377
fliterc1440
wraggera1500
bargainer?a1513
wrangler?1518
brangler1611
scolder1673
fratcher1847
jangler1884
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.iij Here is gylys Fogeler of ayebery..With wallys the wrangler.
c1520 Dial. Creatures Mor. v. B ij b Many one..ageynst Lawe and Reason somtyme wyll stryue and..be full of questyons, wherfore they be takyn for wrangelers and euyll people.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 38v Lucilla..will either shut mee out for a Wrangler, or cast me off for a Wiredrawer.
1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 68 Giles James, a swaggerer and wrangler, much discommended.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 159 Convinced gainesayers and wranglers they are, in stead of convincers.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xiii. 190 Rather like well-bred Gentlemen in polite Conversation, than like noisy and contentious Wranglers.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 360 But this wrangler here—Nought will suffice him but the highest place.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. i. 194 His name..was a corruption of Kyver, that is to say, a wrangler or scolder.
a1901 W. Stubbs Germany in Early Middle Ages (1908) 107 Henry the Wrangler conspired with the Czechs of Bohemia.
figurative and in extended use.1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 129 Where so the wofull Louer is, euen there also is he [sc. Cupid], In bedde the wrangler will not misse his pillowbeare to be.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 74 The seas and winds (old wranglers) tooke a truce. View more context for this quotation1633 G. Herbert Familie in Temple ii What doth this noise of thoughts within my heart?.. Lord,..Turn out these wranglers, which defile thy seat.proverbial.1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 244 A wrangler neuer wanteth words.1671 T. Hunt Abecedarium Scholasticum 18 Many Lawyers, many Wranglers.
b. One who engages in argument, debate, or controversy; a debater, disputant, or controversialist.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > person engaged in
disputer1434
wrangler1561
debater1594
controvertist1608
disputant1612
controverser1614
controverter1615
controversist1623
disputator1637
polemic1639
disceptator1656
controversialist1658
eristic1659
scaldabancoa1670
fencera1680
controversionalist?1780
digladiator1803
argufier1805
polemist1825
polemicist1864
polemician1871
picador1876
barrack-room lawyer1943
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xviii. f. 145v Nowe least any wrangler shoulde stirre vs vp strife by reason of the names of sacrifice and sacrificing prest.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 90 I set downe the proportions..to content wranglers, who..will..take occasion to..detract from that which they cannot disproue.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 19 Teaching them the subtilityes of Logicke, which as it is vsually practized enables them for little more than to bee excellent wranglers.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. viii. 303 These general Maxims..are of great Use in Disputes, to stop the Mouths of Wranglers.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. App. 23 There is indeed a Time when a serious Writer would not trouble himself to confute or set a Wrangler right.
1774 T. Reid Brief Acct. Aristotle's Logic vi. §1, in Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man II. iii. 230 A man who has studied logic all his life may, after all, be only a petulant wrangler.
1842 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (ed. 8) iv. 79 The argumentative resources of the modern..wrangler [earlier edd. stoic].
1881 E. P. Hood Christmas Evans 162 He was not a wrangler, not disposed to maintain debates as to his rights.
c. The name for each of the candidates who have been placed in the first class in the mathematical tripos at Cambridge University. See tripos n. 2, and cf. senior adj. 3.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > candidates > who passes > passing at university > placed in tripos
optime1658
wrangler1750
opt1755
optimate1792
wooden spoon1803
spoon1824
op1828
senior wrangler1831
wedge1852
senior classic1859
1750 Friendly Adv. Old Tory to Vice-C. Cambr. (1751) 26 The Wranglers..have usually expected, that all the young Ladies of their Acquaintance..should wish them Joy of their Honours.
1791 in C. Wordsworth Schol. Acad. (1877) 323 I did above three times as much as the Sen[io]r Wrangler last year.
1812 Examiner 7 Sept. 571/2 These two drivellers are respresented as having been fellow-wranglers at College!
1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 2 Jan. (1874) II. 101 Maule was senior wrangler and senior medallist at Cambridge, and is a lawyer.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xii He took up his books once more, and came forth third wrangler.
1874 C. Wordsworth Soc. Life Eng. Univ. 232 The set for Com. Priora, Feb. 9, 1748–9,..being the earliest which bears on its back a list of the Wranglers and Senior Optimes.
figurative.c1820 Ld. Byron Diary in Wks. (1846) 630/2 Lady B. would have made an excellent wrangler at Cambridge.
2. Western U.S. One who is in charge of a string of horses or ponies on a stock-farm; a herder.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > herder of horses
horse-herdc1000
horse-wrangler1888
wrangler1888
horse-tailer1933
1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Apr. 851/2 There are two herders, always known as ‘horse-wranglers’—one for the day and one for the night.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 405/2 One of them would..overpower the ‘wrangler’ in the darkness, and turn the horses loose.
3. Also Wrangler. A proprietary name for jeans. Frequently plural. Originally U.S.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > made from specific material
shiverines1663
nankeen1770
overall1782
corduroys1791
ducks1825
webs1825
kerseys1833
moleskin1836
cord1837
kerseymeres1840
blue jeans1842
grey1860
mole trousers1860
chaparreras1861
Bedford cord1862
velveteens1862
dungarees1872
moles1879
chaps1884
chaparejos1887
oiler1889
greyers1900
flannels1911
Levi's1926
denim1932
chino1943
wrangler1947
Bedfords1954
sweats1956
sweatpants1957
1947 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 16 Dec. 395/2 Blue Bell, Inc., Greensboro, N.C... Wrangler. For Western style dungarees and pants. Claims use since Jan. 19, 1929.
1963 Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Oct. 1478/1 Wrangler... Articles of protective clothing..and articles of sports clothing... Kilgour & Walker Limited.., Aberdeen; manufacturers.
1966 Trade Marks Jrnl. 7 Sept. 1313/2 Wrangler... Articles of protective clothing..; trousers, jeans [etc.]. Blue Bell, Inc.., Greensboro, State of North Carolina.
1972 New Society 13 Apr. 68/2 I suggested..that..the girls..might like to travel in jeans and change into their best gear when we stopped for lunch. My idea..produced..a unanimous decision..that they were going in their wranglers anyway.
1978 D. Bloodworth Crosstalk xxvii. 211 A tall blond youth in wranglers and ringlets.
1981 C. Watson Bishop in Back Seat xxi. 131 He was in his regulation costume: Wrangler jeans, soiled Stetson.

Draft additions August 2004

Originally U.S. A person employed in the management, care, and training of animals on a film set. Also in extended use.
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1930 Los Angeles Times 4 June ii. 2/4 Red Sly, another horse wrangler, who modestly admitted he sometimes works in the films.]
1937 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. x. 3/5 The horses had been taken to the location in the afternoon along with sixty wranglers, one for each five animals. The horses rented for $2.50 a head and each wrangler received $10.
1962 G. N. Fenin & W. K. Everson Western v. 104 Any wrangler working for him who failed to loosen his horse's cinch during the lunch break, or who was otherwise cruel or thoughtless, was dismissed on the spot.
1990 Premiere July 79/2 To get the spider to perform on cue, a slender thread was attached to him with wax, then passed through a hole in the top of the jar..to the hands of a spider wrangler perched on a cherrypicker above the camera.
1998 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 380/3 Mankiewicz was a great writer and skilled diva-wrangler, having finessed the egos of Taylor and Katharine Hepburn on Suddenly Last Summer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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