gangling
IPA: gˈæŋgʌɫɪŋ
noun
- (nonce word, nonstandard) A member of a gang.
adjective
- Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
Examples of "gangling" in Sentences
- He was a gangling and slim boy.
- Lobb was a tall, and gangling man.
- The gangling paceman gave little away.
- Rolls Royce would appear his tall, gangling figure.
- The gangling star says the national football federation is sick.
- I mean, he was a gangling, physically badly co ordinated young man.
- The gangling 28 year old Tottenham Hotspur striker apparently retired.
- He will be pinning a lot of hope on gangling striker Manucho Goncalves.
- Lobb was a tall gangling right arm fast medium bowler and a No 11 batsman.
- Long, lean and hollow cheeked, the term "gangling" fits him better than any other.
- He was then a tall, "gangling" youth, six feet one in height, with yellow hair and blue eyes.
- He was a tall, thin, gangling boy, with eyes that shone like ice, and the travellers were frightened by his strangeness.
- Now and then, he lifted his head and looked at the boy, so thin and gangling, and felt his smile, as bright and fleeting as the dew on the grass.
- You might call her "gangling" -- stretched out, a bit taller and svelter and better muscled than you would think, especially in the crucial upper-arm area.
- Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels.
- As for her Cousin Martin ( "Marty" everybody called the gangling, grinning, idle ne'er-do-well of fourteen), Janice was inclined to be utterly hopeless about him from the start.
- The creature's right hand featured a long thumb and short fingers able to grip tools, yet the curvature of the hand and the gangling arms appear more suitable for swinging on branches.
- Clarkson is the gangling, unpredictable bringer of disaster; Turner is the slightly pompous straight man in the flesh, Turner is the more garrulous, Clarkson a little more earnest, though only a fraction.
- A mistake by Evra lets in Yildirim, who plays in Sen beautifully, who has a great chance to score just to the right of goal, goes for a dink when he should have smashed it and the gangling Dutchman blocks.