wrassle

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæsl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæs(ə)l/
• Homophones: rassle, wrastle
• Rhymes: -æsəl
• Hyphenation: wrast‧le

wrassle (third-person singular simple present wrassles, present participle wrassling, simple past and past participle wrassled)

1. Pronunciation spelling of wrestle, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 8, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, [United States?]: Alien Ebooks, published 2023, →ISBN, page 105:

     Poor Jody! He ought not to have to wrassle in there by himself.

   • 1962 June 4, William Faulkner, chapter V, in The Reivers: A Reminiscence, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 101:

     Miss Reba turned to Boon again. "What you been doing? wrassling with hogs?" / "We got in a mudhole back down the road. We drove up. The automobile's outside now."

2. (Southern US, with "up") To gather with effort.
   • 2011 July 15, Ellen James, Doctors in the House, Harlequin+ORM, →ISBN:

     […] "wrassled" up some fresh sheets for her,  […]

• Walsers, warless