gangrel means A tramp, vagrant, vagabond. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “gangrel” is a great word
A vagrant or vagabond; also, a tall, awkward person or a toddler. From Middle English gangrel, from gang (meaning 'to go, walk') + the suffix -rel (often diminutive or pejorative), a 'little goer.' Unlike “vagrant,” a neutral legal designation, or “toddler,” a precise developmental term, “gangrel” is a gaunt silhouette against a twilight hedge, a stranger’s footfall that does not stop at your gate, the clumsy earnest lurch of a child across a stone floor—the fundamental human condition of being perpetually, physically, between places.
Etymology
From Middle English gangrel, equivalent to gang + -rel. Compare gangling.
noun
- A tramp, vagrant, vagabond.“Two men saw him on the road, and have recorded their experience. One was a gangrel, by name McNab, who was travelling from Gledsmuir to Allerkirk with a heavy pack on his back and a bowed head.”
- A tall awkward fellow.
- A child just beginning to walk; toddler.
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