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gangling

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gan·gling  (gngglng)
adj.
Awkwardly tall or long-limbed; rangy: gangling adolescents.

[Perhaps from dialectal gang, to go, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan.]

gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ], gangly [ˈgæŋglɪ]
adj
tall, lanky, and awkward in movement
[perhaps related to gangrel; see gang2]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.gangling - tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man"
tall - great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships"
2.gangling - tall and thin
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

gangling gangly
adjective awkward, skinny, angular, lanky, rangy, rawboned, loose-jointed a gangling teenager dressed in jeans and trainers
Translations
gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ] ADJ [youth] → larguirucho, desgarbado; [legs] → larguirucho, desproporcionado

gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ] adjdégingandé(e)

gangling

gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ] adjallampanato/a
gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ] adjallampanato/a

gangling
adj gangling [ˈgӕŋgliŋ]
tall, very thin and usually awkward. lomp طَويل وَهَزيل дългурест čahounský ranglet; spinkel schlaksig,schlaff ψηλόλιγνος, ψηλός και άχαρος larguirucho kiitsakas دراز بی قواره hontelo dégingandé גָבוֹהַ וְרָזֶה लम्बा और दुबला mršav, krakat nyakigláb jangkung kurus renglulegur dinoccolato ひょろ長い 호리호리한 išstypėlis, ilgšis izstīdzējis; neveikls kurus melempai slungelig skranglet, spinkel og tynn chudy i niezgrabny desengonçado deşirat долговязый vyhúknutý pretegnjen štrkljav gänglig, spinkig ผอมสูง; ยาวเล็ก; ยาวเหยียด; สูงโงนเงน sırık gibi, leylek gibi 高瘦且笨拙的 довгов'язий ڈھیلے ڈھالے بدن کا آدمی lênh khênh; lóng ngóng


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Staffers lunching in the building's canteen nod respectfully at this gangling, spectacled intruder.
Neale first met Ervin when he was a freshman - a gangling 14-year-old boy who loved to swim.
When a shot went true, their gangling legs, encased alike in faded denim, shifted as if a ripple went through them collectively.
 
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