warple
English
Alternative forms
- warpel
Etymology
From warp + -le.
Verb
warple (third-person singular simple present warples, present participle warpling, simple past and past participle warpled)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To intertwine; twist; entangle.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, figuratively) To confuse.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To twist or wind around.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To wrestle; tumble; wriggle.
- (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To stagger; go in a zig-zag course; move with difficulty; struggle through.
See also
- wraple
Anagrams
- prelaw, wraple