Gangling

Perhaps from *gangle, from the dialectal gang ("to go, to walk, to proceed").

Full definition of gangling

Adjective

1. Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.A gangling teenager.

Related terms

• gangly
• lanky
• rangy

From gang + -ling.

Noun

1. (nonce, nonstandard) A member of a gang.
• 2007, Edward Estlin Cummings, Eimi:"Well, we'll meet in New York and you can see what's left of me! Bon voyage" the ganglings smirked & just beyond Grand, bang into not — da.