gangler

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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One who gangles or is gangly.

""I'm Robert Rampart Junior," said a nine-year-old gangler, "and we want it pretty blamed quick.""
"...it had spawned this elegant square-jawed young gangler, this inspired, easy student..."
"...he was a "loping creature who looked about seven feet tall" and "had the authoritative stoop of a gangler who is born to mastery.""
"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..."
"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?"

Etymology tree English gangle Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English gangler From gangle + -er.

ganglers (plural)