gangling

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gangling¹

Where it comes from

Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig.

adjective more gangling · most gangling

  1. Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful. A gangling teenager.

gangling²

noun ganglings

  1. nonce word, nonstandard A member of a gang. "Well, we'll meet in New York and you can see what's left of me! Bon voyage" the ganglings smirked & just beyond Grand, bang into not — da.

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adj awkwardly tall and thin

Françaisdégingandé
Italianoallampanato
Ελληνικάκρεμανταλάς kremantalás
עבריתגַּמְלוֹנִי gamloní

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@misc{gangling_2026,
  title = {gangling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gangling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}