gangrel

[ gang-gruhl, -ruhl ]

nounBritish Dialect.
  1. a lanky, loose-jointed person.

  2. a wandering beggar; vagabond; vagrant.

Origin of gangrel

1
1300–50; Middle English; See gang1, -rel; cf. gangling

Words Nearby gangrel

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How to use gangrel in a sentence

  • But tell me, good Gerard, how it is that thou art so willing to leave kith and kin to follow a gangrel wife along the ways?

  • The female replied in his stead, 'O aye, sir—troth we have a partner—a gangrel body like oursells.

    Red Gauntlet | Sir Walter Scott
  • Is it a wonder that very soon we had the slouch of the gangrel and the cunning aspect of the thief?

    John Splendid | Neil Munro
  • It happened once that some gangrel women came to Lithend from Bergthorsknoll; they were great gossips and rather spiteful tongued.

  • And what gangrel loon is this that ye are bringing to the door by the hand?

    Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City | S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

British Dictionary definitions for gangrel

gangrel

/ (ˈɡæŋɡrəl, ˈɡæŋrəl) /


nounScot archaic, or literary
  1. a wandering beggar

  2. a child just able to walk; toddler

Origin of gangrel

1
C16: from Old English gangan to go 1

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