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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



... fall. He stepped back a pace, Joe's subdued, calm warning penetrating his senses like the sound of a blow on an anvil. Last week this gangling strip of a youngster was nothing but a boy, fetching and carrying in Isom Chase's barn-yard. Tonight, big and bony and broad-shouldered, he was a man, with the same outward gentleness over the iron inside of ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden



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



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