Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mars, mutilates, or disfigures.
- noun A machine for chopping meat for cooking; a meat-chopper or -masticator.
- noun One who uses a mangle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
- noun One who smooths with a mangle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
mangles laundry
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples
Etymologies
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Examples
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I remember from my high school history textbook that John Garraty used this as proof that Harding was not very bright, and that he was a word mangler like You Know Who.
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I was not a "mangler," but I went in and asked to see the boss.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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The 7mm magnum is no more of a meat mangler than a .300 Win Mag at a comparable range with similar weight bullet.
I'm looking to get a new rifle and am torn between a 7mm rem. mag and a 300 win mag. 2009
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They're trying to make her look like a mangler of the English language when she's obviously capable of soaring poetry.
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The 7mm magnum is no more of a meat mangler than a .300 Win Mag at a comparable range with similar weight bullet.
I'm looking to get a new rifle and am torn between a 7mm rem. mag and a 300 win mag. 2009
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In a sketch that lampooned the debate, Fey portrayed Palin as she had in two previous outings - lampooning the interview with CBS's Katie Couric, and an imaginary joint press conference with Hillary Clinton - as a sentence-mangler of the first order.
Jerry Weissman: Sarah's Sentences Jerry Weissman 2010
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In a sketch that lampooned the debate, Fey portrayed Palin as she had in two previous outings - lampooning the interview with CBS's Katie Couric, and an imaginary joint press conference with Hillary Clinton - as a sentence-mangler of the first order.
Sarah's Sentences 2010
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In a sketch that lampooned the debate, Fey portrayed Palin as she had in two previous outings - lampooning the interview with CBS's Katie Couric, and an imaginary joint press conference with Hillary Clinton - as a sentence-mangler of the first order.
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I see that a certain serial shagger, mangler of the English language and croquet player has reappeared on the political scene.
John "2 Jags" Prescott I tell him to "Goforth and multiply" FIDO The Dog 2009
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Feeling the desperate need to procrastinate this morning, I decided to put that theory to the test, by doing some Google Books searches through the works of the notorious language-mangler Jane A., whom I mentioned above.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence 2009
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