gangrel

American  

[gang-gruhl, -ruhl] / ˈgæŋ grəl, -rəl /

noun

British Dialect.

1. a lanky, loose-jointed person.

2. a wandering beggar; vagabond; vagrant.

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gangrel British  

/ ˈɡæŋrəl, ˈɡæŋɡrəl /

noun

1. a wandering beggar

2. a child just able to walk; toddler

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Etymology

Origin of gangrel

1300–50; Middle English; See gang ¹, -rel; cf. gangling

Example Sentences

I am neither gangrel, nor spy, nor Amalekite, nor yet am I Zebedee Linklater.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

Forth with you for a mocker and a gangrel loon!”—speaking in our common Scots,—“and herd with the base thieves from whom you came, coward and mocking malapert!”

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

Now those gangrel women whom they had put across the Fleet came to Bergthorsknoll, and Bergthora asked whence they came, but they answered, "Away east under Eyjafell".

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

Then she went slowly down from the Hill of Speech, and whoso saw her deemed her but a gangrel carline. 

From The House of the Wolfings by Morris, William

Neither Hogg nor Scott, I think, was crafty enough to imitate the prosaic drawl of the printed broadside ballad, or the feeble interpolations with which the "gangrel scrape-gut," or bankelsanger, supplied gaps in his memory.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew