Obs. or arch. Also 6 Sc. brangill. [perh. a particular use of prec., influenced in meaning by WRANGLE (14th c.), and possibly by BRABBLE, BRAWL, with which it is nearly synon.] intr. To wrangle, squabble, dispute contentiously.
1553. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. Prol. 125. That brangillis [ed. Small braulis] thus with thi boast.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. II. (1641), 93/1. Flesh & bloud will brangle, And murmuring Reason with th’ Almighty wrangle.
1684. trans. Agrippa’s Van. Arts, lxxxiii. 292. With what Heat … they brangle about the sick-mans bed.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., I. 241. Thus wrangled, brangled, jangled they a month.
