mangle
English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English mangelen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.
Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.
Verb
[edit]mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)
- (transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
- c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
- when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel
- (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
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Etymology 2
[edit]Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel.
Noun
[edit]mangle (plural mangles)
- A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
- The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
- There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.
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Verb
[edit]mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)
- (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
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Etymology 3
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Noun
[edit]mangle (plural mangles)
- A mangrove (tree).
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[edit]mangle m (plural mangles)
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[edit]Danish
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[edit]From German mangeln (“to lack”).
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[edit]mangle (imperative mangl, infinitive at mangle, present tense mangler, past tense manglede, perfect tense er/har manglet)
French
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[edit]mangle f (plural mangles)
Further reading
[edit]- “mangle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
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[edit]mangle
- inflection of mangeln:
Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit]mangle (imperative mangl or mangle, present tense mangler, simple past and past participle mangla or manglet, present participle manglende)
- to lack (something)
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[edit]- “mangle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Spanish
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[edit]From Cariban or Taíno/Arawakan.
Pronunciation
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[edit]mangle m (plural mangles)
- (botany) A mangrove, any of various plants of the genus Rhizophora
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[edit]- “mangle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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