| 单词 | gangly |
| 释义 | gangly (once / 68717 pages) adj Someone who's tall, long-limbed, and awkward is gangly. Many teenagers go through a gangly phase before they reach their full height and weight. Gangly people are gawky and skinny, and you could also describe an adolescent colt or puppy with long, ungraceful legs as gangly. The adjective gangly is American, its invention often attributed to Mark Twain, who used it in his 1872 book "Roughing It," as a variation on the British word with the same meaning, gangling. WORD FAMILYgangly USAGE EXAMPLESWith gangly limbs, big, expressive eyes and an entire vocabulary’s worth of colorful grunts and groans at her disposal, she’s equally good at nonverbal comedy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) The gangly 22-year-old is still the “wise Yoda soul” that he was at 4 years old, according to his mom. Washington Times(Dec 09, 2016) Tyler, one of rap’s most volatile performers, careens over stages with a gangly exuberance. Los Angeles Times(Nov 13, 2016) 1adj tall and thin and having long slender limbs Syn gangling, lanky, rangy tall great in vertical dimension; high in stature 2adj tall and thin Syn gangling, lanky lean, thin lacking excess flesh |
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