This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
gongoozler
hail-fellow
connoisseur
gangrel
vulgarian

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PRONUNCIATION:

(GANG-ruhl)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A vagrant or drifter.
2. A tall, thin, long-limbed person.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English gang/gong (manner of going, way, passage), from gangen (to go). Earliest documented use: 1450.

USAGE:

“She is an enthusiastic reader and collector of books, provides shelter to the gangrels in her tower.”
Dietmar Bohnke; Shades of Gray; Galda + Wilch Verlag; 2004.

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