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Word Meanings - JANGLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer. 2. A wrangling, noisy fellow.

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  • WRANGLE
    An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • PRATER
    One who prates. Shak.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • FELLOWLIKE
    Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
  • FELLOWLY
    Fellowlike. Shak.
  • BABBLER
    A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
  • NOISY
    1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
  • WRANGLER
    1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts. 2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank,
  • BABBLERY
    Babble. Sir T. More
  • FELLOW
    companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
  • WRANGLESOME
    Contentious; quarrelsome. Halliwell.
  • WRANGLERSHIP
    The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.
  • TALKER
    1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.
  • FELLOW-CREATURE
    One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.
  • FELLOWFEEL
    To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.
  • FELLOWLESS
    Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.
  • BEDFELLOW
    One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
  • UNFELLOWED
    Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
  • DISFELLOWSHIP
    To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
  • ODD FELLOW
    A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
  • PEWFELLOW
    1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
  • GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
    Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
  • STALKER
    1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
  • COACHFELLOW
    One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.
  • DEERSTALKER
    One who practices deerstalking.
  • WORKFELLOW
    One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

 

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