gangling
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of gangling
1800–10; akin to obsolete gangrel gangling person; cf. gang 1
Example Sentences
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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
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
“This is hard, Charles,” Skelton said to Charles Davis, a gangling and talented freshman forward.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2015
And so he grew older and taller—they were a tall family, with gangling legs and finely made hands—and he waited.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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