Noun: mangle
| Singular | mangle |
| Plural | mangles |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1993, John Banville, Ghosts:]
Nouns inflected like mangle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Dutch Nouns '
mangel', German Nouns '
Mangel', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μάγγανον'.
Verbs referencing "mangle"
English Nouns
mangrove.