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, editors, 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
    • c. 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
infinitive simple gangler
compound avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2 simple ganglant
compound present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle ganglé
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie (i’) tu il, elle 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 present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que ie (i’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle 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 present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — gangle — ganglons ganglez —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).
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