MEANING
Tall or long-limbed in a thin, somewhat awkward way.
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- gangly teenager
- gangly limbs
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A gangly figure crossed the yard.
His gangly limbs seemed too long for the chair.
The drawing exaggerated the creature’s gangly shape.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: More gangly; most gangly where gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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