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prettygoodwordrankle - v., to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment in.
Both physical and mental, and both transitive and intransitive senses. From Old French rancler, from draoncle, abscess, festering sore, from Latin dracunculus, little snake, diminutive of of draco, serpent, dragon -- the image being that a snakebite that has ulcerated. The dropped d is a bit odd, though.
---L.
Both physical and mental, and both transitive and intransitive senses. From Old French rancler, from draoncle, abscess, festering sore, from Latin dracunculus, little snake, diminutive of of draco, serpent, dragon -- the image being that a snakebite that has ulcerated. The dropped d is a bit odd, though.
---L.
