Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Awkwardly tall or long-limbed; rangy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Awkward and sprawling in walking; loose-jointed.
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- adjective
Awkwardly tall and thin,ungraceful . - noun A member of a
gang .
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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You might call her "gangling" -- stretched out, a bit taller and svelter and better muscled than you would think, especially in the crucial upper-arm area.
Gwyneth Paltrow In 'Vogue': Owns 2 Outdoor Pizza Ovens, Deep-Fat Fryer (PHOTOS) 2010
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As for her Cousin Martin ( "Marty" everybody called the gangling, grinning, idle ne'er-do-well of fourteen), Janice was inclined to be utterly hopeless about him from the start.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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Long, lean and hollow cheeked, the term "gangling" fits him better than any other.
The Boy Aviators in Africa John Henry Goldfrap 1898
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He was then a tall, "gangling" youth, six feet one in height, with yellow hair and blue eyes.
The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890
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The creature's right hand featured a long thumb and short fingers able to grip tools, yet the curvature of the hand and the gangling arms appear more suitable for swinging on branches.
Fossil Trove Sheds Light On a Stage of Evolution Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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He was a tall, thin, gangling boy, with eyes that shone like ice, and the travellers were frightened by his strangeness.
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A mistake by Evra lets in Yildirim, who plays in Sen beautifully, who has a great chance to score just to the right of goal, goes for a dink when he should have smashed it and the gangling Dutchman blocks.
Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened Barney Ronay 2010
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Now and then, he lifted his head and looked at the boy, so thin and gangling, and felt his smile, as bright and fleeting as the dew on the grass.
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Clarkson is the gangling, unpredictable bringer of disaster; Turner is the slightly pompous straight man in the flesh, Turner is the more garrulous, Clarkson a little more earnest, though only a fraction.
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Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels.
bilby commented on the word gangling
This one is entering her teens,
Ripe for sentimental scenes,
Has picked a gangling unripe male,
Sees herself in a bridal veil,
Presses lips and tosses head,
Declares she's not too young to wed,
Informs you pertly you forget
Romeo and Juliet.
Do not argue, do not shout;
Remind her how that one turned out.
- Ogden Nash, 'The Romantic Age'.
July 28, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word gangling
Haha! Nice verse bilbs, though I should probably be thanking Ogden Nash.
July 28, 2009