- gangling
- gan|gling [ `gæŋglıŋ ] adjectivevery tall and thin, with long arms and legs, and not graceful
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
gangling — by 1812, a frequentative of GANG (Cf. gang) in some sense involving looseness. GANGLING. Tall, slender, delicate, generally applied to plants. Warw. [James O. Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1846] … Etymology dictionary
Gängling — Gängling, s. Aland (Fisch) … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
gangling — [ˈgæŋglɪŋ] or gangly [ˈgæŋgli] adj very tall and thin, and not graceful … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
gangling — [adj] rangy awkward, bony, gawky, lanky, leggy, long legged, long limbed, lumbering, skinny, spindly, tall, thin; concepts 490,491 … New thesaurus
gangling — (also gangly) ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a person) tall, thin, and awkward. ORIGIN Old Norse … English terms dictionary
gangling — [gaŋ′gliŋ] adj. [? altered (? infl. by DANGLE) < GANGREL, in obs. sense, “lanky person”] thin, tall, and awkward; of loose, lanky build: also gangly … English World dictionary
gangling — [[t]gæ̱ŋglɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n Gangling is used to describe a young person, especially a man, who is tall, thin, and clumsy in their movements. His gangling, awkward gait has earned him the name Spiderman. ...his gangling, bony frame … English dictionary
gangling — /gang gling/, adj. awkwardly tall and spindly; lank and loosely built. Also, gangly. [1800 10; akin to obs. gangrel gangling person; cf. GANG1] * * * … Universalium
gangling — adj. Gangling is used with these nouns: ↑youth … Collocations dictionary
gangling — gan|gling [ˈgæŋglıŋ] adj [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from Scottish English gangrel wanderer, tall thin person (14 20 centuries)] unusually tall and thin, and not able to move gracefully = ↑lanky ▪ an awkward gangling teenager … Dictionary of contemporary English
gangling — adjective unusually tall and thin, and not at all graceful in the way you move: an awkward gangling teenager … Longman dictionary of contemporary English