a. [f. TANGLE sb.2 or v.1 + -SOME.] Full of tanglement, tangled, confused. Also dial. (see quot. 1823).

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1821.  Jane Taylor, Washing & Dressing, iv., in Orig. Poems, 35.

        It is not to teaze you and hurt you, my sweet,
  But only from kindness and care,
That I wash you, and dress you, and make you look neat,
  And comb out your tanglesome hair.

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1823.  E. Moor, Suffolk Words & Phr., Tanglesome, discontented—obstinate—fretful—not essentially different from Tankersome.

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1888.  Engineer, LXV. 317. Things are in such a tanglesome condition.

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