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

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 —
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