MANGLE, MANGLED
ADJECTIVES
– HAGGERED jaggedly cut, full of notches, mangled …1825 Sc.
– HAGGLED mangled, hacked, mutilated …1894 Sc.
– MAGGLED † mangled, bungled …Bk1905 Sc.
– MANKIT defective, corrupt, cut awry, mangled …1928 Sc.
VERBS
– BEMANGLE to cut about; to hack, to mangle …1553-87
– CHEW UP to savage; to mangle the body of …20C sl.
– CONVEL †* to tear or mangle …1638
– HACKLE to cut roughly; to hackle; to mangle by cutting …1579-80
– HAG to bungle, to mangle any business …1727 Sc.
– HAGGER to cut, to slice clumsily or unevenly so as to leave a jagged edge; to hack, to mangle …1866 Sc.
– HAGGLE to mangle with repeated irregular cuts or cutting blows; to cut clumsily with uneven jagged edges; to hack, to mangle, to mutilate; to bungle …1599
– MAGG †* to mangle …a1400-50
– MAGGLE to spoil by over-handling; to mangle; to spoil food by cutting and handling it too much during its preparation …1713 Sc.
– MAMMOCK to break or cut into pieces; to crumble; to tear; to shred; to mangle; to carve awkwardly …1520 Eng. dial.
– MANANGLE to mangle; to mix in a wild and confused manner …1790 Eng. dial.
– MANGHANGLE to mangle; to mix in a wild and confused manner …1790 Eng. dial.
– MANK † to maim, to mangle, to mutilate; to make defective; to impair, to spoil …a1400-50 obs. exc. Sc.
– MAR to harm, to injure a person; later, to mangle, to disfigure …c1205 arch.
– MARGULLIE † to disfigure, to mar, to mangle; to mismanage, to abuse; to mar any business; to bungle …1721 Sc.
– MASSACRE † to mutilate, to mangle …1589
– MISGULLY to handle a ‘gully’ clumsily; to cut in a clumsy manner; to mangle in cutting or carving …B1900 Sc.
– MOMMOCK to break or cut into pieces; to crumble; to tear; to mangle; to carve awkwardly …1853 Eng. dial.
– MOMOX to tear into pieces; to mangle; to beat severely, to maul …1867 Amer. dial.
– MUMMOCK to break or cut into pieces; to crumble; to tear; to mangle; to carve awkwardly …1853 Eng. dial.
– MURGULLIE to spoil, to destroy, to mangle; to mar any business …1721 Sc.
– MURGULLY † to disfigure, to mar, to mangle; to mismanage, to abuse …1721 Sc.
– RIDDLE to pierce, to penetrate; to mangle …1892 Eng. dial.
– SALIVATE to mangle, to tear apart …1936 Amer. dial.