Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gangling.
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- adjective
Tall andthin , especially so as to cause physicalawkwardness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tall and thin and having long slender limbs
- adjective tall and thin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On style, I loved the "gangly" lawyer from Springfield reference and his reference to MLK as "a king."
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He clearly thinks he's kind of gangly and ugly, but he's obviously not repulsive, because attractive women keep offering themselves up.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ZOE WHITTALL 2011
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At the peak of their growth spurt, boys in particular can be "gangly" and perhaps less co-ordinated than normal.
Planet Judo 2009
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No more flashbacks, no more traps, no more gangly bear trap masks?
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He would move from that pre-pubescence to an incredibly awkward teen period — from cherub, to a gangly whippet of a young man.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Jonathan Johansson (Frolunda Jrs.) — It's stunning how much his overall game has developed in the last six months since we saw him as a gangly checker last April at the U-18 world championships.
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After meeting each other multiple times - first in 1996, when they're both gangly adolescents at Camp Weehawken - Adam and Emma finally let their relationship get physical.
Portman, Kutcher are worth getting 'Attached' to Jen Chaney 2011
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A few days later I was working the register in the record store when a gangly long-feathered-hair type in three quarter sleeves sauntered up.
ceciliatan: Who Can It Be Now ceciliatan 2010
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Stan trying to get to her first but he couldn't and someone yelled, Got her! and he remembers a dozen legs near the shore, a spider of legs, gangly in cloth suits, hunching over her, dripping water everywhere.
Cigarillo Shelagh Power-Chopra 2011
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He would move from that pre-pubescence to an incredibly awkward teen period — from cherub, to a gangly whippet of a young man.
whichbe commented on the word gangly
This must be when someone behaves as if they're in a gang.
January 8, 2009