langer

lang·er
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Ireland/ˈlæŋɚ/

noun

Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).

Less commonScrabble 7

Meanings

langer1

nounlanger (plural langers)

plural langers

  1. IrelandderogatoryslangFool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).

    Synonyms: dickhead, knob, asshole, shithead, tool, wanker

  2. IrelandderogatoryoffensiveslangAn annoying person.

    "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer!"

    1996, Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, →ISBN, page 8
    2 more examples

    And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".

    2006, September 3, Brendan O'Connor Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent

    Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy.

    2006 November 22, Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent
  3. IrelandslangvulgarPenis.

    Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.

    2006, Eoin Colfer, “Taking on PJ”, in Ken Bruen, editor, Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, →ISBN, page 23
    1 more example

    He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.

    2005, Fergal Keane, All of These People: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 88

Langer2

proper noun
  1. A surname from German.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounFool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).

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Origin

langer · noun

Uncertain. Suggestions include: * from langur monkeys, via the Munster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India * from languor * from lang, variant of long * from "on the lang", supposed variant of on the lam * from leangaire, a word in Cnósach Focal ó Bhaile Bhúirne, a dictionary of the Muskerry Gaeltacht. It means an unusually long slender salmon.

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Langer · proper noun

  1. GermanLanger“a surname”
  2. EnglishLanger

From German Langer (“a surname”, literally “a tall man”).

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APA

langer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/langer

MLA

“langer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/langer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “langer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/langer.

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