Definitions for gangling

gangling gan·gling

Spelling: [gang-gling]
IPA: /ˈgæŋ glɪŋ/

Gangling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in gangling (agggilnn).

Definitions for gangling

adjective

  1. awkwardly tall and spindly; lank and loosely built.

verb (used without object)

  1. to move awkwardly or ungracefully:

Origin of gangling

1800-10; akin to obsolete gangrel gangling person; cf. gang1

Examples for gangling

He was then a tall, "gangling" youth, six feet one in height, with yellow hair and blue eyes.

Long, lean and hollow cheeked, the term "gangling" fits him better than any other.

Long, gangling boy to start with, and a lean, stoop-shouldered man.

Look a that gangling country jay, he muttered in Osgoods ear.

Four years there did the work for the gangling, silent mountaineer.

The gangling Texan was testing his rudder controls and flipping his ailerons with jerky movements of evident impatience.

The horse wheeled, stepping as clumsily as a gangling yearling.

Come here, Rufie, said Billson, beckoning to the gangling youth.

The rest were children, from gangling adolescents to one mere infant in arms.

It was the first joke the gangling innovator had perpetrated.

Word Value for gangling
Scrable

11

Words with friends

17

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