wrangler

/'ræɳglə/

Thân thiện

A wrangler leads a group of horses across a sunlit field.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses
2. someone who argues noisily or angrily

Từ đồng nghĩa

• horse wrangler