different between dangler vs gangler

English

Etymology

From dangle +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dæ??l?(?)/

Noun

dangler (plural danglers)

1. (now rare, archaic) One who dangles about others, especially after women.
   • 1770, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 10 January:

     ‘You see,’ she cried, ‘what a Herd of Danglers flutter around you […].’

   • 1783, Samuel Hoole, Aurelia; Or, the Contest

     Such once was I, a dangler to the fair; / Still, as a glass, I praise their dress, their air […]

2. (informal) A large earring that hangs down.
   • 1985, Susi Rogol, Create a Look with Jewelry (page 22)

     Long hair piled high on top of the head or cut to a short, curvy crop, needs the balance provided by large, dramatic earrings. Those with tresses frizzed into Pre-Raphaelite waves will like the look of huge hoops or ethnic danglers in wood […]

Anagrams

• Glander, Le Grand, Legrand, gnarled, rangled

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.