gangling

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8

Definition of gangling

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
    “A gangling teenager.”
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adj

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

noun

  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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Etymology

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

Anagrams of gangling

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