Etymology

gangling

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Today it means: Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful. Full definition →

English gang ← Middle English gang ← Old English gang
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gangling · adjective1

Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig.

gangling · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰengʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰóngʰos
  3. Proto-Germanic*gangaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*gang
  5. Old Englishgang
  6. Middle Englishgang
  7. Englishgang
  8. English todaygangling

From gang + -ling.

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