different between brangle vs branle

English

Etymology

Perhaps related to branle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?æ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Noun

brangle (plural brangles)

1. (archaic) A squabble.
   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, s:Uncle Tom's Cabin

     "I was a fool, it's a fact, to let any such brangle come up," said Legree; "but, when the boy set up his will, he had to be broke in."

Verb

brangle (third-person singular simple present brangles, present participle brangling, simple past and past participle brangled)

1. To squabble.
   • 1999, Julia Justiss, The Wedding Gamble, page 104

     "As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered.
     "Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"

Derived terms

• brangler

English

Etymology

From French branler (“to shake”); see further at brawl, etymology 2.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???l/, /?b???l/, /?b?æn(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??l/, /?b?æn(?)l/
• Hyphenation: bran?le (when pronounced as two syllables)

Noun

branle (plural branles)

1. A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance.

   Synonyms: brangle, bransle, (all obsolete) brantle

Alternative forms

• brawl

References

Further reading

• branle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• brelan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???l/

Noun

branle m (plural branles)

1. shake (act of shaking)
2. (slang) wank (act of masturbating)
3. (nautical) A sailor's hammock on board a ship.

Derived terms

• mettre en branle

Verb

branle

1. inflection of branler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “branle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• brelan

Middle French

Alternative forms

• bransle

Noun

branle m (plural branles)

1. branle (dance)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (branle, supplement)