gangler

gangler

English

Etymology

gangle +‎ -er

Noun

gangler (plural ganglers)

1. One who gangles or is gangly.
   • 1993, Gardner R. Dozois, Modern Classics of Science Fiction

     "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

     ...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

     ...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

     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

     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?

Anagrams

• gangrel

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French jangler.

Verb

gangler

1. to tell entertaining stories
   • circa 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

     Si en parloient et gangloient tout chevauchant ensemble

     They spoke about it and told each other anecdotes while on horseback together

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

   Conjugation of gangler

		simple			compound
infinitive		gangler			avoir ganglé
gerund		en ganglant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		ganglant
past participle		ganglé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (may be i' before a vowel)	tu	il	nous	vous	ilz, elles
simple tenses	present	gangle	gangles	gangle	ganglons	ganglez	ganglent
	imperfect	ganglois, gangloys	ganglois, gangloys	gangloit, gangloyt	ganglions, ganglyons	gangliez, ganglyez	gangloient, gangloyent
	past historic	gangla	ganglas	gangla	ganglasmes	ganglastes	ganglerent
	future	ganglerai, gangleray	gangleras	ganglera	ganglerons	ganglerez	gangleront
	conditional	ganglerois, gangleroys	ganglerois, gangleroys	gangleroit, gangleroyt	ganglerions, gangleryons	gangleriez, gangleryez	gangleroient, gangleroyent
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que ie	que tu	qu'il	que nous	que vous	qu'ilz, qu'elles
simple tenses	present	gangle	gangles	gangle	ganglons	ganglez	ganglent
	imperfect	ganglasse	ganglasses	ganglast	ganglassions	ganglassiez	ganglassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	gangle	—	ganglons	ganglez	—