fankle means A tangled condition. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
fankle is pronounced /ˈfæŋkəl/.
Etymology
From Scots fankle, (compare English fangle), equivalent to fank (“coil, noose, vang”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Doublet of fangle.
noun
- A tangled condition.“But sometimes they didn't go the way they should - and jammed, and each one behind it started to jam too, and I had to work like a madman to catch up, before the anchor-chain fouled into a fankle […]”
verb
- To tangle or entangle.