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Angler vs Gangler - What's the difference?

angler | gangler |

As nouns the difference between angler and gangler

is that angler is a person who fishes with a hook and line while gangler is one who gangles or is gangly.

angler

English

(wikipedia angler) (angling) (Lophius piscatorius)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who fishes with a hook and line.
    • A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.
  • An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius .
    • The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.
  • Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
    • ''Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.
  • A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (person who fishes with hook and line) fisher, fisherman * (angler fish) anglerfish, frogfish * (someone with a scheme or ulterior motive) conniver, grifter, schemer, swindler

    Related terms

    * angling

    References

    * * 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue , available from Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5402]

    Anagrams

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    gangler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who gangles or is gangly.
  • * 1993 , Gardner R. Dozois, Modern Classics of Science Fiction [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0312088477&id=usYQ89se8CUC&pg=PA274&lpg=PA274&dq=gangler&sig=Ss1V-7649AZKqL86O9NPaUOrnQE]
    • "I'm Robert Rampart Junior," said a nine-year-old gangler , "and we want it pretty blamed quick."
  • * 1994 , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Fat Art Thin Art [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0822315122&id=kLCQfMMjOL0C&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=gangler&sig=7oY2xjjb4AwF5WLXKviBFOCgtqs]
    • ...it had spawned this elegant square-jawed young gangler , this inspired, easy student...
  • * 1999 , James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, eds., The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0791442497&id=gg7NUUuUXOYC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=gangler&sig=hdLexcPVxMHTXdT9oh6Obri5TCU]
    • ...he was a "loping creature who looked about seven feet tall" and "had the authoritative stoop of a gangler who is born to mastery."
  • * 2000 , Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0060955295&id=rfuvrZBR_xMC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=gangler&sig=fENAOnHOAJv3-pZdoaXswr793d0]
    • 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...
  • * 2002 , Hortense Calisher, Sunday Jews [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0151009309&id=fCpQYsO0TPUC&q=gangler&dq=gangler&pgis=1]
    • 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?
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