Gangling
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of a gang. nonce-word, nonstandard
""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."
Adjective
- 1 Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
"A gangling teenager."
Adjective
- 1 tall and thin wordnet
- 2 tall and thin and having long slender limbs wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples""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."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig.
Etymology 2
From gang + -ling.