different between tiff vs wrangle
tiff
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Etymology 1
Originally, a sniff, sniffing; compare Icelandic word for a smell.
Noun
tiff (plural tiffs)
- A small argument; a petty quarrel.
- Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
Translations
Verb
tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)
- (intransitive) To quarrel.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:squabble
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, untitled
- She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English tiffen, Old French tiffer, tifer ("to bedizen"; > Modern French attifer), from Frankish *tipf?n, *tipp?n (“to decorate”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“top, tip”). Compare Dutch tippen (“to clip the points or ends of the hair”), Old Norse tippa (“point, tip”), English tip (noun), Middle High German zipfen (“to prance; skip; sashay; bob; flutter; frisk”).
Verb
tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deck out; to dress.
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Etymology 3
Verb
tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)
- (British India, intransitive) To have lunch.
- 1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register
- Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.
- 1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register
Related terms
- tiffin
Anagrams
- fift
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wrangle
English
Etymology
From Middle English wranglen, from Low German wrangeln (“to wrangle”), frequentative form of wrangen (“to struggle, make an uproar”); equivalent to wring +? -le. Related to Danish vringle (“to twist, entangle”) and German rangeln (“to wrestle”). More at wrong, wring.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æ?.??l/
- Rhymes: -æ???l
Verb
wrangle (third-person singular simple present wrangles, present participle wrangling, simple past and past participle wrangled)
- (intransitive) To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
- And I would call it, fair play.
- 1716, Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, No. 39, Friday, May 4, 1716, in The Works of Joseph Addison, Volume III, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837, p. 235,[2]
- He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points, to triumph in the superiority of his understanding, or to be supercilious on the side of truth.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18,[3]
- I stood where land and sea wrangled ferociously over the overlap.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- (transitive) To herd (horses or other livestock); (humorously) to supervise, manage (people).
- 1962, “The Second Time Around,” Time, 12 January, 1962,[4]
- When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck.
- 2010, Sean Gordon, “Gionta settles in, stands out,” The Globe and Mail, 3 October, 2010,[5]
- Wrangling a chaotic group of five-year-olds is unnerving enough without the added stress of a famous NHLer in the room helping lace his son’s skates.
- 1962, “The Second Time Around,” Time, 12 January, 1962,[4]
- (transitive, by figurative extension from the sense with animals and people) To gather and organize (facts, information, data), especially in ways that require sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.
- Synonym: munge
- (transitive) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
- 1649, Robert Sanderson, Letter to N. N. respecting the relative Merits of the Presbyterians and the Independents, 10 April, 1649, in George D’Oyly, The Life of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume II, London: John Murray, 1821, Appendix, p. 442,[6]
- When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found, in the end, the man in the safest way, and by the surest line […]
- 1649, Robert Sanderson, Letter to N. N. respecting the relative Merits of the Presbyterians and the Independents, 10 April, 1649, in George D’Oyly, The Life of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume II, London: John Murray, 1821, Appendix, p. 442,[6]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:squabble
Derived terms
- wrangler
- wrangling
Translations
Noun
wrangle (plural wrangles)
- An act of wrangling.
- Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.
- An angry dispute.
- January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech
- For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come. And there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss. And then of course there is a third group — perhaps the biggest — who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end.
- January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech
Translations
Anagrams
- Wangler, wangler
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