different between tangler vs gangler

English

Etymology

tangle +? -er

Noun

tangler (plural tanglers)

1. One who tangles.
2. (usually in the plural) A strip of onion fried in batter, like an onion ring, but with a twisty shape.
3. (Ireland, historical) A paid middleman at a fair or market.

Anagrams

• Largent, langret, trangle

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.