back-ganging

English

WOTD – 20 January 2023

From back- +‎ ganging (“going”), from gang (“to go, proceed; to walk”).[1]

back-ganging (comparative more back-ganging, superlative most back-ganging) (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)

Behind or late in payment or rent; in arrears.
- 1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter XI. The Same to the Same [Darsie Latimer to Alan Fairford].”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 239:
  Here he opened the fatal volume [a rental book]; I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday book—I am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants.
Not in a good financial state; unprosperous.
Synonym: backgain
Not in good health; sickly, unhealthy.
Synonym: backgain

behind or late in payment or rent

Finnish: jolla on maksut myöhässä, jolla on maksut rästissä (literally “that has late payments”), jolla on vuokra myöhässä, jolla on vuokra rästissä (literally “that has late rent”)

not in a good financial state — see unprosperous

not in good health — see sickly,‎ unhealthy

back-ganging (uncountable) (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)

going back — see returning

way back

deterioration, especially in circumstances or health — see relapse

Compare Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “BACK-GANNIN, vbl. sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 115, column 1.

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