English Explanatory Dictionary

gangling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
noun
  1. A member of a gang.

Word forms

gangling more gangling most gangling ganglings

Etymology

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

Related words

gangly lanky rangy

Derived words

ganglingly
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