intertwingle

Meaning

Verb

• to entangle; to be confused, muddled, or enmeshed
• To interconnect or interrelate in a deep and complex way.

Origin

• This word has been coined independently multiple times.
• Apparently used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda
• Used as a noun by Henry James as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters.
• Used as a noun by John Singer Sargent as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of the Ormond sisters (his nieces); either relating to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models, or their convoluted poses. (Jane Emmet de Glehn, one of Henry James' "intertwingles", was also a friend and model of Sargent's.)
• Introduced in urban planning by Tracy Augur in the 1950s, and adopted by others including Dennis O'Harrow
• The more specific computing sense was introduced by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974).