gangling
gangling · more gangling · most gangling
Awkwardly tall and thin, ungracefulAwkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
Meaning
1 sensesAwkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
A gangling teenager.
tall and thin
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare SwediPerhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
more gangling, most gangling| Comparative | more gangling Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most gangling Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
3 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsDerivedganglingly
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.