langer

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.

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

langer (plural langers)

1. (slang, Ireland, derogatory) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
2. (slang, Ireland, derogatory, offensive, used in Cork) A person from north 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.
   • 2006, 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.

   • 2005, 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.

• Originally and mainly restricted to County Cork

• (annoying or contemptible person): dickhead, knob, asshole, shithead, wanker
• (penis): See also Thesaurus:penis

• langers, langered, acting the langer, langerload

• Nagler, Nergal, Rangel, angler, erlang, gen'ral, largen, rangle, regnal

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• Rhymes: -ɑŋər

langer

1. Comparative form of lang

Related to langes (“swaddling clothes”).

langer

1. to diaper (to put diapers on someone)

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.

• “langer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• glaner

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋɐ/

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.

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

1. drug dealer

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

langer

1. long

• Swedish: lång

langer

1. comparative degree of lang

langer

1. comparative degree of lang