wariangle
English
Alternative forms
- warriangle
Etymology
From Old English wariangel, weryangle. Compare Old English wearg (“outlaw, criminal”), Old High German warg, warch, Gothic wargs (wargs) (in compounds), German würgengel (“destroying angel, destroyer, killer”), and English worry.
Noun
wariangle (plural wariangles)
- (Britain, obsolete or dialectal) The red-backed shrike Lanius collurio.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wariangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)