English
Noun
en-noun
- One who gangles or is gangly.
#*1993: Gardner R. Dozois, Modern Classics of Science Fiction 1
#*:"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 2
#*:...it had spawned this elegant square-jawed young gangler, this inspired, easy student...
#*1999: James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, eds., The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews 3
#*:...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 4
#*: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 5
#*: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?
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