wrangler
/'ræɳglə/
Definition
- Noun:
- A person who herds or tends livestock, especially horses, on a ranch: A wrangler is typically a cowboy responsible for the care and management of saddle horses.
- A person who argues noisily or angrily: A wrangler is someone who engages in loud, contentious, or heated arguments.
Examples
- Noun (Cowboy):
- The ranch hired a new wrangler to manage the herd of mustangs.
- As a wrangler, her day began at dawn, feeding and saddling the horses for the guests.
- Noun (Argumentative person):
- He gained a reputation as a wrangler, always ready to dispute the smallest point.
- The meeting was disrupted by a few political wranglers who refused to listen.
Advanced Usage
- "to work as a wrangler": to have the job of tending to horses or livestock.
- After college, he spent a summer working as a wrangler in Montana.
- Used in academic history (chiefly British, Cambridge University): A student who has achieved first-class honors in the mathematical tripos exams.
- In 1880, he graduated as a senior wrangler.
Variants and Related Words
- Wrangle (verb): To argue noisily or angrily; to herd or tend livestock.
- The children continued to wrangle over the rules of the game.
- It took two hours to wrangle the cattle into the pen.
- Wrangling (noun): The act of arguing noisily; the work of a livestock herder.
- After much legal wrangling, a settlement was reached.
Synonyms
- For the cowboy sense: Cowhand, herdsman, drover, broncobuster.
- For the argumentative sense: Disputant, quarreler, bickerer, polemicist.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Compounds
- Horse wrangler: A person specifically employed to handle and care for horses.
- The film set's horse wrangler ensured the animals were safe and calm.
- Cattle wrangler: A person who herds and manages cattle.
- The cattle wranglers drove the herd to the summer pasture.
Related Idioms
- "A wrangle over something": A prolonged, noisy, or complicated dispute about something.
- There was a long wrangle over the division of the inheritance.
Noun
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a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses
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someone who argues noisily or angrily
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