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Gangling

adjective
1.
Tall and thin and having long slender limbs.  Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy.  "A lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man"
2.
Tall and thin.  Synonyms: gangly, lanky.






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"Gangling" Quotes from Famous Books



... say not! I use both of 'em a great deal myself," said George. "One thing I don't see though: What's the use of a man being six-feet-three? Men that size can't handle themselves as well as a man about five-feet-eleven and a half can. Those long, gangling men, they're nearly always too kind of wormy to be any good in athletics, and they're so awkward they keep falling ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington



Words linked to "Gangling" :   gangly, lean, thin, tall, rangy, lanky



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