English

Proper noun

Langer

1. A surname​.

See also

• Lang
• Lange
• Long

Anagrams

• angler, erlang, largen, regnal

English

Noun

langer ‎(plural langers)

1. (slang, Ireland, pejorative) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
2. (slang, Ireland, pejorative) Offensive Dublin slang term for a person from county Cork.
   • 1996, Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, ISBN 1854593986, 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) ****.
   • Eoin Colfer, "Taking on PJ" in Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, ed. Ken Bruen, p.23, ISBN 1888451920:

     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 0007176929:

     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.

Usage notes

• Originally and mainly restricted to County Cork

Synonyms

• (annoying or contemptible person): dickhead, knob, ****, shithead, wanker
• (****): See also Wikisaurus:****

Derived terms

• langers, langered, acting the langer, langerload

External links

• The Gentrification of Langer?, Finbarr Barry, peoplesrepublicofcork
• langer from the Hiberno-English archive

Anagrams

• angler, erlang, largen, regnal

Dutch

Pronunciation

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.

Anagrams

• glaner

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

• Swedish: lång

Scots

Adjective

langer

1. comparative degree of lang

Adverb

langer

1. comparative degree of lang