Uncertain. Suggestions include:

• fromlangur monkeys, via theMunster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India
• fromlanguor
• fromlang, variant oflong
• from "on the lang", supposed variant ofon the lam
• fromleangaire, 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(ɹ)
• Homophones:Langer

langer (plurallangers)

1. (slang, Ireland, derogatory) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
2. (slang, Ireland, derogatory, offensive, used inCork) A person from south county Dublin.
   • 1996, Enda Walsh,Disco Pigs,→ISBN, page 8:

     "Give it up will ya! get a job, jalanger!"

   • 2006, September 3, Brendan O'ConnorRoy: the discreet object of our desire,Irish Independent:

     And central to it all is wind-up, making alanger 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 Ken Bruen, editor,Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American,→ISBN, page23:

     Mike opened his knees wide, so that hislanger 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,→ISBN, page88:

     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 hislanger (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.

• Originally from Dublin but enjoyed immense popularity inCounty Cork

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

• langers,langered,acting the langer,langerload

• Rangel,angler,Erlang,Largen,Arleng,Algren,rangle,Nergal,largen,regnal,Nagler,gen'ral,erlang

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• Rhymes:-ɑŋər

langer

1. comparative degree oflang

Related tolanges(“swaddling clothes”).

langer

1. todiaper (to put diapers on someone)

This is a regular-er verb, but the stem is writtenlange- 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 asneiger andmanger.

• “langer”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• glaner

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋɐ/

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langer

1. inflection oflang:
   1. strong/mixednominativemasculinesingular
   2. stronggenitive/dativefemininesingular
   3. stronggenitiveplural

• langar(Nynorsk)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlâŋ.ŋər/,[ˈlɑ̂ŋ.ŋəɾ],[ˈlɑ̂ŋ.ŋəʁ]

lange(“send, deal”) +‎-er(“-er”,agent nominalization suffix)

langer m (definite singularlangeren,indefinite plurallangere,definite plurallangerne)

1. dealer,peddler; someone who deals or peddles
   1. drug dealer; someone who deals narcotics

langer

1. present oflange

• “langer” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “langer” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

FromOld Norselangr, fromProto-Germanic*langaz.

langer

1. long

• Swedish:lång

langer

1. comparative degree oflang

langer

1. comparative degree oflang

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