A person who tends to horses or livestock, especially on a ranch, or someone who argues or disputes persistently.
From the verb 'wrangle' meaning to herd livestock or to argue, possibly from Low German 'wrangeln' meaning to struggle. The cowboy sense developed in the American West, while the argumentative sense remained from earlier usage.
At Cambridge University, the top mathematics graduate is still called the 'Senior Wrangler'—a tradition dating back to when math students would 'wrangle' or debate complex problems in oral examinations. Wrangler jeans got their name by sponsoring rodeos where actual horse wranglers competed.
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