gangling
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of gangling
1800–10; akin to obsolete gangrel gangling person; 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
How did you step into Cootie’s gangling, somewhat awkward skin?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2023
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
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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