different between fankle vs wankle

English

Etymology

From Scots fankle, (compare English fangle), equivalent to fank (“coil, noose, vang”) +? -le (frequentative suffix). Doublet of fangle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ?k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Verb

fankle (third-person singular simple present fankles, present participle fankling, simple past and past participle fankled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To tangle or entangle.

Noun

fankle (plural fankles)

1. A tangled condition.
   • 1954, The Nautical Magazine (volumes 171-172, page 31)

     But sometimes they didn't go the way they should - and jammed, and each one behind it started to jam too, and I had to work like a madman to catch up, before the anchor-chain fouled into a fankle […]

Scots

Noun

fankle (plural fankles)

1. A tangle of rope, string, wool etc

English

Etymology

From Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wæ?k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Adjective

wankle (comparative more wankle, superlative most wankle)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Weak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on.

Anagrams

• knawel

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wankel, wankill, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.

Adjective

wankle (comparative mair wankle, superlative maist wankle)

1. weak
2. unsteady
   • G. Stuart