A Scottish dialect adjective meaning tangled or knotted, often applied to rope, thread, hair, or other materials that have become snarled. From the verb to fankle meaning to tangle. Used conversationally in Scotland and in literary works drawing on Scots dialect.
The fishing line was completely fankled after he dropped the reel into the river.
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(Scotland) Tangled.
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