Word of the Day for Saturday, October 5, 2013
gangle \GANG-guhl\,
verb:
to move awkwardly or ungracefully: A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled
past.
His long arms and legs seemed to gangle around the compact dimensions of his pony. He drew to a halt.
-- Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, 1998
Those long legs that used to gangle could run.
-- E.J. Rath, The Brains of the Family, 1925
Gangle arose in
the 1960s as a back formation of the word gangling, a variant of the word
gangrel.
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