gangling

gan·gling  (gngglng)

adj.

Awkwardly tall or long-limbed; rangy: gangling adolescents.

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

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gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ], gangly [ˈgæŋglɪ]

adj

tall, lanky, and awkward in movement

[perhaps related to gangrel; see gang²]

Thesaurus

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" gangly, lanky, rangy tall - great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships"
	2.	gangling - tall and thin gangly, lanky lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

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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

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gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ] adj → dégingandé(e)

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gangling

adj → schlaksig, hoch aufgeschossen

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gangling [ˈgæŋglɪŋ] adj → allampanato/a

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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 瘦长得难看的