"back-ganging" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈbækˌɡæŋɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-back-ganging.wav Forms: more back-ganging [comparative], most back-ganging [superlative]
Etymology: From back- + ganging (“going”), from gang (“to go, proceed; to walk”). Etymology templates: {{pre|en|back-|ganging|t2=going}} back- + ganging (“going”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} back-ganging (comparative more back-ganging, superlative most back-ganging), {{term-label|en|chiefly|Northern England|Scotland}} (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)
  1. Behind or late in payment or rent; in arrears. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland Translations (behind or late in payment or rent): jolla on maksut myöhässä (Finnish), jolla on maksut rästissä (Finnish), jolla on vuokra myöhässä (Finnish), jolla on vuokra rästissä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-back-ganging-en-adj--k~EP4wo Disambiguation of 'behind or late in payment or rent': 93 3 4
  2. Not in a good financial state; unprosperous. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland Synonyms: backgain
    Sense id: en-back-ganging-en-adj-wyylV~H0
  3. Not in good health; sickly, unhealthy. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland Synonyms: backgain
    Sense id: en-back-ganging-en-adj-MvuMU78Z
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: back-gangin, back-gannin Related terms: backgain

Noun

IPA: /ˈbækˌɡæŋɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-back-ganging.wav
Etymology: From back- + ganging (“going”), from gang (“to go, proceed; to walk”). Etymology templates: {{pre|en|back-|ganging|t2=going}} back- + ganging (“going”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} back-ganging (uncountable), {{term-label|en|chiefly|Northern England|Scotland}} (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)
  1. A going back; a returning; also, the way back. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland, uncountable Translations (way back): paluureitti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-back-ganging-en-noun-lAy3wUSV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with back-, English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun), English terms suffixed with -ing (participial), Entries with translation boxes, Northern England English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 49 12 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with back-: 8 19 14 43 16 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun): 12 16 14 44 15 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing (participial): 13 16 14 43 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 10 12 13 53 12 Disambiguation of Northern England English: 11 17 14 46 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 15 8 53 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 14 13 51 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 18 20 38 15 Disambiguation of 'way back': 97 3
  2. A deterioration, especially in circumstances or health; a relapse, a retrograde. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland, uncountable Synonyms: backgain
    Sense id: en-back-ganging-en-noun-FhOzoIf9
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.