rangy
[reyn-jee]
- (of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
- given to or fitted for ranging or moving about, as animals.
- mountainous.
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Origin of rangy
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Contemporary Examples
A 30-yard free kick resulted and the rangy Brazilian, his hair a beehive of curls, cannoned the ball into the Colombian net.
When we were in high school, Bruno was this rangy farm boy and I was certainly not going to have anything to do with that!
Historical Examples
Then he turned to a lean rider who bestrode a tall, rangy horse.
'Drag' HarlanCharles Alden Seltzer
Smuts is essentially an out-of-doors person and his body is wiry and rangy.
An African AdventureIsaac F. Marcosson
In all there were fourteen of these cats—swift and rangy performers, all of them.
The Abandoned FarmersIrvin S. Cobb
A man was coming down from the north, lickety-split on a roan with a rangy stride.
CurlyRoger Pocock
That fat part was something of a joke, for she would always be lean and rangy.
The Right TimeWalter Bupp
rangy
- (of animals or people) having long slender limbs
- adapted to wandering or roaming
- allowing considerable freedom of movement; spacious; roomy
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Word Origin
C19: from range + -y 1
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Word Origin and History for rangy
adj.
"having a long, slender form" (as an animal suited to ranging), 1845, from range (v.) + -y (2). Also "adapted for ranging" (1868). Of landscapes, "hilly," 1862, Australian English. Related: Ranginess.
As a rule, we hold that the Jersey should be "growthy," deep-flanked, and loose-jointed, and should have, generally, the characteristics which farmers know as "rangy." ["American Agriculturalist," November 1876]
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