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gangrel dial. and arch.|ˈgæŋgrəl|
Forms: 6 gangarall (pl. gangralis), 6–7 gangrill, 7 gang(e)rell, 8 gangril, 9 gangerill, 7– gangrel.
[app. f. gang n.1 or v.1, on some obscure analogy; cf. poveral (with which this word is associated in quot. 1538); the ending occurs, though perh. from diverse sources, in several depreciative terms, as haverel, mongrel, gomeril, doggrel, wastrel. A derivative of the same root with similar meaning is MHG. gengelære, G. gängler (in 18th c. said of a packman or pedlar), f. gängeln to walk about.
There is no connexion (beyond identity of root-syllable) with ON. Gangleri (mythical name), which has often been compared: the endings have only a chance resemblance.]
1. A vagabond: a wandering beggar.
c1340Hampole Perfect Living viii. in Wks. 1895 I. 33 Gangrels, and Iangelers, & kepers of comers and gangars arely & late. 1530Extracts Aberdeen Reg. (1844) 130 That na strangearis nor gangerallis cum within the samyn. a1605Polwart Flyting 772 Gleyd gangrell, auld mangrell. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. vii. 92 When all charity is put only in the maintenance of idlenesse and begging Gangrels. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Gangerill, a pedlar, a beggar. 1895Crockett Men of Mosshags 329 Out on you, gangrel.
b. attrib. or adj. Vagabond, vagrant.
1538Aberdeen Reg. V. 15 (Jam.) That na strangearis, nor gangralis puirralis be ressate nor haldyn in this tovnne. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 457 His wife for povertie turned ane gangrell poore woman, selling some small wares. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' 33 There's mony a sturdy gangrel chiel That might be winnin' meat fu' weel. 1785Burns Jolly Beggars 8 A merry core O' randie, gangrel bodies. 1815Scott Guy M. iii, He's nae gentleman..wad grudge twa gangrel puir bodies the shelter o' a waste house. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 40 This gangrel thief thought fit to tread The grass to mammocks by my head. 1895Crockett Sweeth. Trav. 93 Without troubling about suspicious gangrel bodies.
2. A lanky, loose-jointed person. (Cf. gangling.)
1585Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 449/1 A long gangrell: a slim: a long tall fellow that hath no making to his height. 1606Holland Sueton. Annot. 36 b, Ajax..unto whom or to whose long pike rather, he likeneth this gangrell. 1611Cotgr., Trente-costes, a gangerell, slimme, long luske, lanke loobie. 1721Bailey, Gangrel..a tall ill-shaped Fellow. 1873Swaledale Gloss., Gangrel, an awkward fellow. 1884Upton-on-Severn Gloss., Gangril, a lanky, ungainly creature, whether man or beast.
b. attrib. as adj.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 10 A long gangrel neck, which would have made the head look as set upon a pole.
3. Sc. A child just beginning to walk. rare.
1768Ross Helenore 6 Helenore, a gangrel now was grown, And had begun to toddle about the town.
4. north. dial. A toad. Cf. gagrill.
1500–20Dunbar Poems liv. 7 Scho is tute mowitt lyk an aip, And lyk a gangarall [v.r. gangarull] unto graip. 1847–78in Halliwell. 1855–76in Whitby Glossaries. |