gangling
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of gangling
1800–10; akin to obsolete gangrel gangling person; cf. gang 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023
An awkward, gangling kid, he failed to make the team at Hoover Junior High School.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2022
At first the roles that came to him were mostly comic, owing perhaps to his gangling figure and pilgrim looks — long face, sharp nose, superb eyebrows.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022
He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2017
Soon he came out, a gangling, tall, reddish-brownskinned fellow, at that time thirty- five years old; when my purpose was made known, he brisded, his eyes skewering me from behind the hom-rimmed glasses.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
