langer

See also: Langer, lánger, and länger

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Suggestions include:

  • from langur monkeys, via the Munster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India
  • from languor
  • from lang, variant of long
  • from "on the lang", supposed variant of on the lam
  • from leangaire, a word in Cnósach Focal ó Bhaile Bhúirne, a dictionary of the Muskerry Gaeltacht. It means an unusually long slender salmon.

Pronunciation

  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈlæŋəɹ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋə(r)
  • Homophones: Langer

Noun

langer (plural langers)

  1. (slang, Ireland, pejorative) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
  2. (slang, Ireland, pejorative, offensive, used in Cork) A person from county Dublin.
    • 1996, Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, →ISBN, p. 8:
      "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer!"
    • 2006, September 3, Brendan O'Connor Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent:
      And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".
    • 2006 November 22, Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent:
      "Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy. "
  3. (slang, Ireland, vulgar) Penis.
    • Eoin Colfer, "Taking on PJ" in Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, ed. Ken Bruen, p.23, →ISBN:
      Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.
    • Fergal Keane, All of These People: A Memoir, p.88, →ISBN:
      He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.

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Adjective

langer

  1. Comparative form of lang

French

Etymology

Related to langes (“swaddling clothes”).

Verb

langer

  1. to diaper (to put diapers on someone)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written lange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

  Conjugation of langer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive langer avoir langé
gerund en langeant en ayant langé
present participle langeant
/lɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
past participle langé
/lɑ̃.ʒe/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present lange
/lɑ̃ʒ/		 langes
/lɑ̃ʒ/		 lange
/lɑ̃ʒ/		 langeons
/lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/		 langez
/lɑ̃.ʒe/		 langent
/lɑ̃ʒ/
imperfect langeais
/lɑ̃.ʒɛ/		 langeais
/lɑ̃.ʒɛ/		 langeait
/lɑ̃.ʒɛ/		 langions
/lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/		 langiez
/lɑ̃.ʒje/		 langeaient
/lɑ̃.ʒɛ/
past historic1 langeai
/lɑ̃.ʒe/		 langeas
/lɑ̃.ʒa/		 langea
/lɑ̃.ʒa/		 langeâmes
/lɑ̃.ʒam/		 langeâtes
/lɑ̃.ʒat/		 langèrent
/lɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
future langerai
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/		 langeras
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/		 langera
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/		 langerons
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/		 langerez
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/		 langeront
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional langerais
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/		 langerais
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/		 langerait
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/		 langerions
/lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 langeriez
/lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/		 langeraient
/lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present lange
/lɑ̃ʒ/		 langes
/lɑ̃ʒ/		 lange
/lɑ̃ʒ/		 langions
/lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/		 langiez
/lɑ̃.ʒje/		 langent
/lɑ̃ʒ/
imperfect1 langeasse
/lɑ̃.ʒas/		 langeasses
/lɑ̃.ʒas/		 langeât
/lɑ̃.ʒa/		 langeassions
/lɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/		 langeassiez
/lɑ̃.ʒa.sje/		 langeassent
/lɑ̃.ʒas/
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— lange
/lɑ̃ʒ/		 — langeons
/lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/		 langez
/lɑ̃.ʒe/		 —
1literary tenses

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaŋɐ/

Adjective

langer

  1. strong masculine singular nominative form of lang.
  2. strong feminine singular genitive form of lang.
  3. strong feminine singular dative form of lang.
  4. strong plural genitive form of lang.
  5. mixed masculine singular nominative form of lang.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

langer m (definite singular langeren, indefinite plural langere, definite plural langerne)

  1. drug dealer

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

Adjective

langer

  1. long

Declension

Descendants

Scots

Adjective

langer

  1. comparative degree of lang

Adverb

langer

  1. comparative degree of lang
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