different between angler vs gangler

English

Etymology

From Middle English angler, angleer, angeler, equivalent to angle +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ?.?l?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ?.?l?/

Noun

angler (plural anglers)

1. A person who fishes with a hook and line.

   A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.

2. An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.

   The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.

3. Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.

   Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.

4. (archaic, Britain, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.

Synonyms

• (person who fishes with hook and line): fisher, fisherman
• (angler fish): anglerfish, frogfish
• (someone with a scheme or ulterior motive): conniver, grifter, schemer, swindler
• (thief): hooker, nuthook

Related terms

• angling

Translations

References

• angler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue, available from Project Gutenberg [2]
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) , “angler”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 39
• Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues?^[3], volume 1, pages 54–55

Anagrams

• Langer, Nagler, Nergal, Rangel, erlang, gen'ral, langer, largen, rangle, regnal

French

Etymology

From angle +? -er.

Verb

angler

1. to angle

Conjugation

English

Etymology

gangle +? -er

Noun

gangler (plural ganglers)

1. 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?

Anagrams

• gangrel

Middle French

Etymology

Old French jangler.

Verb

gangler

1. to tell entertaining stories

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.