Definition of gangling in English:

gangling

adjective ˈɡaŋɡlɪŋˈɡæŋɡlɪŋ

(of a person) tall, thin, and awkward in movements or bearing.
（人）瘦长的，举止笨拙的
a gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks
Example sentencesExamples
- There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure.
- Two years or so ago he was a gangling schoolboy, but we have worked hard and he has worked hard.
- Four years ago in Sydney, he was the gangling teenaged sensation, winning three golds and two silvers.
- Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder.
- The on-form gangling striker-single handedly destroyed Bucks with all three goals in a 3-1 victory here last season.
- He appears an excellent pick to train with the national squad but, with regard to the actual Scotland XV, he looks as yet still a bit too much of a gangling colt.
- He was a gangling teenage boy with a burning desire for a big game rifle of his own.
- The gangling Frenchman fittingly won the match with an ace down the centre, taking the second-settie-break 7-3.
- The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him.
- But despite this huge talent, his idea of women as pencil thin, stone-faced gangling creatures is very scary.
- A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly.
- A tall gangling officer, wearing only his underwear, stood up and spread his arms out for quiet.
- Yet ‘Little George’, as he is known despite the fact that he is a tall gangling figure, is seen as a new force.
- Watson was 24, an awkward, gangling American, whose hair, Bill has noted, ‘appears in photographs to be straining to attach itself to some powerful magnet just out of frame’.
- Will was tall, and a bit gangling, with black hair that was a little shaggy.
- From the Millwall youth team, he overcame an 11-month injury and the scorn of fans who just couldn't see what the gangling teen had to offer.
- He is also rather more than a stone heavier, and the raw-boned, gangling flanker of his championship-winning season of 1998 has metamorphosed into something more solid, more intimidating.
- At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
- The small fat arms that once clamped round my neck, the sturdy legs with muddy knees, are replaced with long gangling limbs that sprawl untidily, in sharp angles, across my sofa.
- A tall, gangling figure, he simultaneously apologises, flings off his jacket, tells me why his breakfast meeting over-ran and checks his emails, all in a blur of long legs and dark blue suit.
Synonyms
lanky, rangy, wiry, stringy, bony, angular, skinny, skin-and-bones, spindly, spindling, scrawny, thin, spare, gaunt, skeletal, size-zero
loosely built, loosely jointed
awkward, uncoordinated, ungainly, gawky, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful
informal like a bag of bones
dated spindle-shanked

Origin

Early 19th century: from the verb gang² + -le⁴ + -ing².

Rhymes

wrangling

Definition of gangling in US English:

gangling

adjectiveˈɡæŋɡlɪŋˈɡaNGɡliNG

(of a person) tall, thin, and awkward in movements or bearing.
（人）瘦长的，举止笨拙的
a gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks
Example sentencesExamples
- There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure.
- He was a gangling teenage boy with a burning desire for a big game rifle of his own.
- At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
- He appears an excellent pick to train with the national squad but, with regard to the actual Scotland XV, he looks as yet still a bit too much of a gangling colt.
- Four years ago in Sydney, he was the gangling teenaged sensation, winning three golds and two silvers.
- The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him.
- The gangling Frenchman fittingly won the match with an ace down the centre, taking the second-settie-break 7-3.
- But despite this huge talent, his idea of women as pencil thin, stone-faced gangling creatures is very scary.
- He is also rather more than a stone heavier, and the raw-boned, gangling flanker of his championship-winning season of 1998 has metamorphosed into something more solid, more intimidating.
- A tall, gangling figure, he simultaneously apologises, flings off his jacket, tells me why his breakfast meeting over-ran and checks his emails, all in a blur of long legs and dark blue suit.
- The small fat arms that once clamped round my neck, the sturdy legs with muddy knees, are replaced with long gangling limbs that sprawl untidily, in sharp angles, across my sofa.
- A tall gangling officer, wearing only his underwear, stood up and spread his arms out for quiet.
- From the Millwall youth team, he overcame an 11-month injury and the scorn of fans who just couldn't see what the gangling teen had to offer.
- Two years or so ago he was a gangling schoolboy, but we have worked hard and he has worked hard.
- A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly.
- Will was tall, and a bit gangling, with black hair that was a little shaggy.
- The on-form gangling striker-single handedly destroyed Bucks with all three goals in a 3-1 victory here last season.
- Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder.
- Watson was 24, an awkward, gangling American, whose hair, Bill has noted, ‘appears in photographs to be straining to attach itself to some powerful magnet just out of frame’.
- Yet ‘Little George’, as he is known despite the fact that he is a tall gangling figure, is seen as a new force.
Synonyms
lanky, gangly, rangy, wiry, stringy, bony, angular, skinny, skin-and-bones, spindly, spindling, scrawny, thin, spare, gaunt, skeletal, size-zero

Origin

Early 19th century: from the verb gang + -le + -ing.

单词	gangling
释义	Definition of gangling in English: gangling adjective ˈɡaŋɡlɪŋˈɡæŋɡlɪŋ (of a person) tall, thin, and awkward in movements or bearing. （人）瘦长的，举止笨拙的 a gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks Example sentencesExamples There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure. Two years or so ago he was a gangling schoolboy, but we have worked hard and he has worked hard. Four years ago in Sydney, he was the gangling teenaged sensation, winning three golds and two silvers. Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder. The on-form gangling striker-single handedly destroyed Bucks with all three goals in a 3-1 victory here last season. He appears an excellent pick to train with the national squad but, with regard to the actual Scotland XV, he looks as yet still a bit too much of a gangling colt. He was a gangling teenage boy with a burning desire for a big game rifle of his own. The gangling Frenchman fittingly won the match with an ace down the centre, taking the second-settie-break 7-3. The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him. But despite this huge talent, his idea of women as pencil thin, stone-faced gangling creatures is very scary. A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly. A tall gangling officer, wearing only his underwear, stood up and spread his arms out for quiet. Yet ‘Little George’, as he is known despite the fact that he is a tall gangling figure, is seen as a new force. Watson was 24, an awkward, gangling American, whose hair, Bill has noted, ‘appears in photographs to be straining to attach itself to some powerful magnet just out of frame’. Will was tall, and a bit gangling, with black hair that was a little shaggy. From the Millwall youth team, he overcame an 11-month injury and the scorn of fans who just couldn't see what the gangling teen had to offer. He is also rather more than a stone heavier, and the raw-boned, gangling flanker of his championship-winning season of 1998 has metamorphosed into something more solid, more intimidating. At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting. The small fat arms that once clamped round my neck, the sturdy legs with muddy knees, are replaced with long gangling limbs that sprawl untidily, in sharp angles, across my sofa. A tall, gangling figure, he simultaneously apologises, flings off his jacket, tells me why his breakfast meeting over-ran and checks his emails, all in a blur of long legs and dark blue suit. Synonyms lanky, rangy, wiry, stringy, bony, angular, skinny, skin-and-bones, spindly, spindling, scrawny, thin, spare, gaunt, skeletal, size-zero loosely built, loosely jointed awkward, uncoordinated, ungainly, gawky, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful informal like a bag of bones dated spindle-shanked Origin Early 19th century: from the verb gang² + -le⁴ + -ing². Rhymes wrangling Definition of gangling in US English: gangling adjectiveˈɡæŋɡlɪŋˈɡaNGɡliNG (of a person) tall, thin, and awkward in movements or bearing. （人）瘦长的，举止笨拙的 a gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks Example sentencesExamples There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure. He was a gangling teenage boy with a burning desire for a big game rifle of his own. At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting. He appears an excellent pick to train with the national squad but, with regard to the actual Scotland XV, he looks as yet still a bit too much of a gangling colt. Four years ago in Sydney, he was the gangling teenaged sensation, winning three golds and two silvers. The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him. The gangling Frenchman fittingly won the match with an ace down the centre, taking the second-settie-break 7-3. But despite this huge talent, his idea of women as pencil thin, stone-faced gangling creatures is very scary. He is also rather more than a stone heavier, and the raw-boned, gangling flanker of his championship-winning season of 1998 has metamorphosed into something more solid, more intimidating. A tall, gangling figure, he simultaneously apologises, flings off his jacket, tells me why his breakfast meeting over-ran and checks his emails, all in a blur of long legs and dark blue suit. The small fat arms that once clamped round my neck, the sturdy legs with muddy knees, are replaced with long gangling limbs that sprawl untidily, in sharp angles, across my sofa. A tall gangling officer, wearing only his underwear, stood up and spread his arms out for quiet. From the Millwall youth team, he overcame an 11-month injury and the scorn of fans who just couldn't see what the gangling teen had to offer. Two years or so ago he was a gangling schoolboy, but we have worked hard and he has worked hard. A tall, gangling man with shaggy brown hair waved to her from his doorway, grinning broadly. Will was tall, and a bit gangling, with black hair that was a little shaggy. The on-form gangling striker-single handedly destroyed Bucks with all three goals in a 3-1 victory here last season. Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder. Watson was 24, an awkward, gangling American, whose hair, Bill has noted, ‘appears in photographs to be straining to attach itself to some powerful magnet just out of frame’. Yet ‘Little George’, as he is known despite the fact that he is a tall gangling figure, is seen as a new force. Synonyms lanky, gangly, rangy, wiry, stringy, bony, angular, skinny, skin-and-bones, spindly, spindling, scrawny, thin, spare, gaunt, skeletal, size-zero Origin Early 19th century: from the verb gang + -le + -ing.
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