We get into a brief fankle about playing period characters.

It is to be expected that, from time to time, governments get themselves into a fankle of their own making.

Och, but what a fankle that would have been.

22 Such a reaction might get church in a fankle (5)

Doona be getting yourself in a fankle," Dageus said lightly. "

No wonder she's got Da and Nell in such a fankle.

Tremarco got himself into an almighty fankle when trying to deal with a routine clearance.

1950: "He got his feet in a fankle."

Dageus, yer da will get himself in a fankle.

That I might make a fankle of things with you, and you'd leave, and my lads loved you so.

Walkingnay, lushly saunteringtemptation to make a fankle of things.

"The world is in a gae fankle," mused Big Lou.

That was an intergalactic, Dalek-related fankle that did not end well for our heroine.

By Amergin,'tis not too much of a fankle.

Frazer Wright managed to get into a fankle by the penalty spot, under pressure from Higdon.

Herself the product of two world wars and a divided Germany, we must hope this normally bland bureaucrat has got her eurozones in a fankle.

His one eyed head and one solitary arm held together by a fankle of threads woven around four rusty metal joints.

Now there’s a point I can agree with – especially as certain financial institutions have reduced their sponsorship of local events since they got themselves in a fankle.

Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980)

Boyd once again, with the delicate first touch of a geriatric heffalump in a trance, gets his legs in another fankle.

They both sensed the quiet desperation in Drustan and knew he was plunging blindly into something that was bound to become a fankle.

Now, you may ask why an Edinburgh columnist is getting his pantaloons in a fankle over something that is happening in Glasgow.

Great word, 'fankle.'