different between gangler vs jangler

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.

English

Etymology

jangle +? -er

Noun

jangler (plural janglers)

1. Someone who, or something that jangles.
2. A chatterer.
3. Someone who argues noisily.

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *jangal?n, of Germanic origin and probably imitative (compare similar development in Latin gannio (“I bark, yelp”)). The form jogler (whence modern French jongler), derived from Latin iocor, ioculor (“to jest, to make fun”).

Verb

jangler

1. to entertain
2. (by extension) to tell stories and fables

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• ? English: juggle
• French: jongler
• ? Occitan: joglar
• ? Spanish: jinglar