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Gangly

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.

    "I should have shot that long gangly lubber they called Hank, if I could have done it without crippling six or seven other people—but of course I couldn't, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    tall and thin wordnet
  2. 2
    tall and thin and having long slender limbs wordnet

Etymology

An American English alteration of gangling.

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