gangler
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gangler (plural ganglers)
- 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, editors, 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
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]gangler
- to tell entertaining stories
- c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:
- Si en parloient et gangloient tout chevauchant ensemble
- They spoke about it and told each other anecdotes while on horseback together
Conjugation
[edit]- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of gangler
infinitive | simple | gangler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | ganglant | |||||
compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past participle | ganglé | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | gangle | gangles | gangle | ganglons | ganglez | ganglent |
imperfect | ganglois, gangloys | ganglois, gangloys | gangloit, gangloyt | ganglions, ganglyons | gangliez, ganglyez | gangloient, gangloyent | |
past historic | gangla | ganglas | gangla | ganglasmes | ganglastes | ganglerent | |
future | ganglerai, gangleray | gangleras | ganglera | ganglerons | ganglerez | gangleront | |
conditional | ganglerois, gangleroys | ganglerois, gangleroys | gangleroit, gangleroyt | ganglerions, gangleryons | gangleriez, gangleryez | gangleroient, gangleroyent | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | gangle | gangles | gangle | ganglons | ganglez | ganglent |
imperfect | ganglasse | ganglasses | ganglast | ganglassions | ganglassiez | ganglassent | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | gangle | — | ganglons | ganglez | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). |