gangling
gangling adjective: awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
Adjective
gangling (comparative more gangling, superlative most gangling)
- Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
- A gangling teenager.
Noun
gangling (plural ganglings)
- A member of a gang.
- "Well, we'll meet in New York and you can see what's left of me! Bon voyage" the ganglings smirked & just beyond Grand, bang into not — da.2007, Edward Estlin Cummings, Eimi
gangling meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
gangling in Malayalam
- rangy, lanky, tall
- മെല്ലിച്ച, നീണ്ടുമെലിഞ്ഞ, കോലനായ, ചടച്ചുനീണ്ട, മെലിഞ്ഞു നീണ്ടു കൊലുന്നനെയുള്ള, മെലിഞ്ഞുനീണ്ട
gangling in Kannada
- ಸಣಕಲು, ಬಡಕಲು, ಎತ್ತರ
Forms of gangling
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more gangling |
| superlative | most gangling |
| Noun | |
| plural | ganglings |
Origin of gangling
Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig.
From gang + -ling.
Words formed from gangling
Questions about gangling
- What does gangling mean?
- Gangling means awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
- What is gangling in Malayalam?
- Gangling in Malayalam is മെല്ലിച്ച, നീണ്ടുമെലിഞ്ഞ, കോലനായ. See Gangling meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is gangling?
- Gangling can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near gangling in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gangling (page history and authors); gangling (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gangling (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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