English

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Etymology

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From gangle +‎ -er.

Noun

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gangler (plural ganglers)

  1. One who gangles or is gangly.
    • 1993, Gardner R. Dozois, Modern Classics of Science Fiction[1]:
      "I'm Robert Rampart Junior," said a nine-year-old gangler, "and we want it pretty blamed quick."
    • 1994, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Fat Art Thin Art[2]:
      ...it had spawned this elegant square-jawed young gangler, this inspired, easy student...
    • 1999, James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, editors, The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews[3]:
      ...he was a "loping creature who looked about seven feet tall" and "had the authoritative stoop of a gangler who is born to mastery."
    • 2000, Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts[4]:
      Everybody went: the spry, the shy, the podge, the gangler, the future electronic scientist, the future cop who would one night kick a diabetic to death...
    • 2002, Hortense Calisher, Sunday Jews[5]:
      Yet was it "down in the teen dump," as her cousin Eustace, an older gangler of like temperament, had called it, that she'd acquired a lifelong habit of feeling always more the observer than the observed?

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Middle French

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Etymology

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Old French jangler.

Verb

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gangler

  1. to tell entertaining stories
    • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:
      Si en parloient et gangloient tout chevauchant ensemble
      They spoke about it and told each other anecdotes while on horseback together

Conjugation

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  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.