Gangling vs Gangly - What's the difference?
gangling | gangly |
(nonce, nonstandard) A member of a gang.
* 2007 , Edward Estlin Cummings, Eimi :
Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.
* 1872 , , chapter VII
* 1917 , , chapter XV
* 2007 , Oswald J. Schmitz, Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation? , page 34
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Gangly is a related term of gangling.
As adjectives the difference between gangling and gangly
is that gangling is awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful while gangly is tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.As a noun gangling
is a member of a gang.gangling
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from .Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- "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.
gangly
English
Adjective
(er)- I should have shot that long gangly lubber they called Hank, if I could have done it without crippling six or seven other people—but of course I couldn't
- A rangy, gangly , Scandinavian youth of a sailor, droop-shouldered, six feet six and slender as a lath, with pallid eyes of palest blue and skin and hair attuned to the same colour scheme, joined Kwaque in his work.
- Individuals of this rabbit species tend to be very large (about the size of a beagle dog); they have long ears and long, gangly legs and a very thin fur coats.
citation, page= , passage=[Peter Crouch] The gangly striker played a one-two with Jermaine Pennant as the winger cut in from the right, and although Pennant easily jinked past centre-half Brede Hangeland, he shot narrowly wide of the far post.}}