Tall lanky creature with long tongue and sharpened teeth looms over a chubby being in blue shorts running for his life over a cliff - but a small safety net and escape hatch into the wall awaits him. Meanwhile his fellows have organised a trip wire around the giant creatures ankles and a ballista has slung a rock at its back to propel it over the cliff.
The Scottish Word:

Gangling.

He’s a lang linged gangling glomer but the wee pink puggies have organised and invested in technology an so his glomin days are numbered.

Nae mair gulchin on wee pink puggies any time he fancies.

Translate:

Gangling: loosely built, lanky.

He’s a long limbed lanky snatcher upper but the small pink monkeys have organised and invested in technology and so his groping days are numbered.

No more greedy feeding on little pink monkeys any time he wants.

′gɑŋləŋ
The Scottish Word: gangling with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

Inktober #16 Gangly.

The Inktober 2026 Prompt List: 1 Apple 2 Relic 3 Miniature 4 Cactus 5 Smack 6 Ogre 7 Panic 8 Stinky 9 Ram 10 Mystical 11 Rescue 12 Toss 13 Flimsy 14 Lady 15 Hooray 16 Gangly 17 Contraption 18 Flightless 19 Confused 20 Lounge 21 Hero 22 Beacon 23 Dapper 24 Bake 25 Fracture 26 Zip 27 Dumb 28 Trophy 29 Tusk 30 Cookie 31 Flex
Inktober 2026 prompt list used to backdate words not done since summer 2025.

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