gangler

plural ganglers

1. One who gangles or is gangly.

   ...it had spawned this elegant square-jawed young gangler, this inspired, easy student...

   1994, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Fat Art Thin Art

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   "I'm Robert Rampart Junior," said a nine-year-old gangler, "and we want it pretty blamed quick."

   1993, Gardner R. Dozois, Modern Classics of Science Fiction

   ...he was a "loping creature who looked about seven feet tall" and "had the authoritative stoop of a gangler who is born to mastery."

   1999, James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, editors, The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews

   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...

   2000, Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts

   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?

   2002, Hortense Calisher, Sunday Jews