gangle
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of gangle
First recorded in 1965–70; back formation from gangling
Example Sentences
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He remains the same loose-limbed gangle of a goalkeeper, a bundle of boots and gloves whose every twitch seems to express some profound state of gloom.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2019
Most of today's cell towers are 200-foot monsters topped with an unsightly gangle of antennae.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 24, 2011
Actor Stewart, as always, is an infinite gangle of charm.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rawboned kid was 17 and fresh off a Van Meter, Iowa farm when he gangled out to begin his major-league pitching career against the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang.
From Time Magazine Archive
He gangled; his hair straggled down in a black shock over a craggy face in which only the eyes crackled; he vibrated with a strange intensity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023
How did you step into Cootie’s gangling, somewhat awkward skin?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2017
“This is hard, Charles,” Skelton said to Charles Davis, a gangling and talented freshman forward.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2015
He was tall, thin, and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet, and a long nose.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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