gangling

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of a gang. nonce-word,nonstandard
    — "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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
    — A gangling teenager.

词形变化

more gangling comparative most gangling superlative ganglings plural

词源

词源 1
Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English gang
Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.
Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
?
Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ling
Old English -ling
Middle English -ling
English -ling
English gangling
From gang + -ling.
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