Crossword clues for gangling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"long and loose-jointed," by 1812, from Scottish and Northern English gang (v.) "to walk, go," which is a survival of Old English gangan, which is related to gang (n.). The form of the word is that of a present-participle adjective from a frequentative verb (as in fondling, trampling), but no intermediate forms are known. The sense extension would seem to be via some notion involving looseness in walking.\n\nGANGLING. Tall, slender, delicate, generally applied to plants. Warw.
[James O. Halliwell, "A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words," 1846]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. awkward tall and thin, ungraceful. Etymology 2
n. (context nonce nonstandard English) A member of a gang.
WordNet
Usage examples of "gangling".
He was tall and gangling with the look of a colt who has yet to fill out.
Tom and Asta started as the two men entered, dragging between them a sprawling, gangling form in a purple Uncle Sam suit.
Now you tell me a gangling weakling bested the deadliest bare-hand fighter Takis has produced.
It lay curled into a tight ball, its shoulder blades fused into a large hump and its gangling arms wrapped around its knees.
Compared to the boulderlike shape of most dwarves, Brul was rather gaunt and lean, with gangling arms and bowed legs.
The back grew round and hunched, while the arms became long gangling things that ended in barbed talons.
Its shoulder blades were fused into a single large hump, and its gangling arms were wrapped around its knees.
His body was contorted and weak, with humped shoulders and gangling arms.
His entire body was swaddled in roiling clouds the color of turquoise, and great torrents of salty water poured from the claws at the end of his gangling arms.
He had hands which were hard for all that they were long and tapered, and arms which seemed a little long, giving him a sort of gangling or gawky appearance.
He got up, unsteadily crossed the room to let in a tall, gangling, nervous-looking man in a lightweight grey suit.
There was a space between the boy who had been walking second, a gangling, evilfaced boy named Harold Quince, and the survivor of the two leather boys.
The thing had gangling arms and hands with ebony talons, a skeletal torso with naked female breasts, coarse black hair that framed smoldering scarlet eyes.
He was a powerful-looking figure with hulking shoulders, gangling arms, and a blocky, almost handsome face.
Roaring in anger, Melineth leaned forward and lashed out with his gangling arms.