tanglesome
English
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edittanglesome (comparative more tanglesome, superlative most tanglesome)
- Characterised or marked by entanglement, tangled, entangled.
- 1850, Edward Livermore, Phebe, The Blackberry Girl[1]:
- 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.
- (UK, dialect) Quarrelsome.