wrangler

[ rang-gler ]

noun

1. a cowboy, especially one in charge of saddle horses.
2. a person who wrangles or disputes.
3. (at Cambridge University, England) a person placed in the first class in the mathematics tripos.

wrangler

/ ˈræŋɡlə /

noun

1. one who wrangles
2. a herder; cowboy
3. a person who handles or controls animals involved in the making of a film or television programme

   a snake wrangler

4. (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos. The wrangler with the highest marks is called the senior wrangler

Word History and Origins

Origin of wrangler¹

1505–15; wrangle + -er ¹; wrangler ( def 1 ) originally horse-wrangler, probably partial translation of Mexican Spanish caballerango groom, stable boy, with -erango suggesting wrangler

Example Sentences

Speaking from his vacation in Kyoto, Japan, Snow talked to The Envelope about teaming with storm chasers and data wranglers to craft the look of havoc-wreaking weather.

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One time the cat escaped and ran underneath our set, so we were basically shut down for an hour while the animal wrangler crawled around trying to find him.

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Snake wrangler Danielle Wall has become a celebrity in California’s high desert.

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If he’s the wrangler, she seeks to be the tamer, the intuitive.

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One would be the one Angela’s cat-throwing stunt double would toss up into the arms of a cat wrangler hiding in the ceiling behind Oscar.

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Related Words

• breeder
• herder
• herdsman