tanglesome

English

Etymology

tangle +‎ -some

Adjective

tanglesome (comparative more tanglesome, superlative most tanglesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by entanglement, tangled, entangled.
    • 1850, Edward Livermore, Phebe, The Blackberry Girl‎:
      It is not to tease you, and hurt you, my sweet, / But only for kindness and care, / That I wash you and dress you, and make you look neat, / And comb out your tanglesome hair.
  2. (UK, dialect) Quarrelsome.

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