wariangle

English

Alternative forms

• warriangle

Etymology

From Middle English wariangel, weryangle, possibly from Old English *weargincel with the second element reanalyzed as *weargengel. Compare Old English wearg (“outlaw, criminal”), German würgengel (“destroying angel, destroyer, killer”), -incel (“diminutive suffix”) and English worry.

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Noun

wariangle (plural wariangles)

1. (UK, obsolete or dialect) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)