gangly
English
Pronunciation
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Adjective
gangly (comparative ganglier, superlative gangliest)
- Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.
- 1872, Mark Twain, chapter VII, in Roughing It:
- I should have shot that long gangly lubber they called Hank, if I could have done it without crippling six or seven other people—but of course I couldn't
- 1917, Jack London, chapter XV, in Michael, Brother of Jerry:
- A rangy, gangly, Scandinavian youth of a sailor, droop-shouldered, six feet six and slender as a lath, with pallid eyes of palest blue and skin and hair attuned to the same colour scheme, joined Kwaque in his work.
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- She was gangly and wild and walked with her wrists turned inside out...
- 2007, Oswald J. Schmitz, Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation, page 34:
- Individuals of this rabbit species tend to be very large (about the size of a beagle dog); they have long ears and long, gangly legs and a very thin fur coats.
- 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- [Peter Crouch] The gangly striker played a one-two with Jermaine Pennant as the winger cut in from the right, and although Pennant easily jinked past centre-half Brede Hangeland, he shot narrowly wide of the far post.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:scrawny
- lanky
Related terms
Translations
tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness
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