gangling

• adj.過度に細長く、動きが不器用で見苦しい。
• v. ぎこちなく動く（gangleのing形）

gangから、行く。-レ、繰り返し。-ing、属格接尾辞。つまり、よろよろと歩くこと、後に背が高く、細く、不器用なことを表す。

gangling (adj.)

"long and loose-jointed," by 1812, from Scottish and Northern English gang (v.) "to walk, go," which is a survival of Old English gangan, which is related to gang (n.). The form of the word is that of a present-participle adjective from a frequentative verb (as in fondling, trampling), but no intermediate forms are known. The sense extension would seem to be via some notion involving looseness in walking.

GANGLING. Tall, slender, delicate, generally applied to plants. Warw. [James O. Halliwell, "A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words," 1846]

1. His gangling ，awkward gait has earned him the name Spiderman.

彼はやせていて背が高く、動作が不器用で見苦しいので、「スパイダーマン」というあだ名がついた。

2.George，despite his great height and gangling walk，was a keen dancer.

ジョージは背が高く、歩く姿勢が醜いにもかかわらず、ダンスに熱中している。

3.He is a gangling youth.

彼は痩せて醜い若者だ。

4.For example，one compares flat and little space，unfavorable put gangling thing.

例えば、比較的平らで小さい空間では、細長いものを置くべきではありません。