gangle

[gang-guhl]

verb (used without object)

gangled, gangling 

1. to move awkwardly or ungracefully.

   A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled past.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gangle¹

First recorded in 1965–70; back formation from gangling

Example Sentences

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.

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An uncoordinated toff with a memory like a cravat who gangles through life with his fingers in his ears while his ghastly family re-enact various civil wars over the silverware.

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A glass case is filled with animal snow domes: spindly flamingos gangle like anorexic models.

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Most of today's cell towers are 200-foot monsters topped with an unsightly gangle of antennae.

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