gangling

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He was tall and gangling, dark-skinned, originally from Ethiopia.

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  1. adjective Awkwardly tall or long-limbed; rangy: gangling adolescents.

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  • Things moved here, from either side of us at once—tall creatures, gangling, clothed, some brown-skinned and some azure-blue, some red-furred; and all armed, taking up a defensive line. —  Port Eternity
  • Lord Stergos valued the gangling, fair-haired young man for his intelligence, his unswerving integrity, and his self-deprecating sense of humor—as did Snudge. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • He let out a hoarse bellow of rage and leaped forward with the clumsy, gangling, yet tremendous speed of the bull-ape he resembled. —  058 - The Golden Peril
  • And on the last day of the preparations for its fifth mission the Senator finally—finally—made his move Chapter 15 The man standing beside Ferrol was tall and gangling, with the sort of faraway look in his eyes that Roman had always associated with heavy drug use. —  Warhorse
  • He was a gangling, red-haired fellow with, at this point, ketchup all over one side of his mouth. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
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  1. Perhaps from dialectal gang, to go, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan.

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  1. Prop. present participle of *gangle, freq. of gang, go. Cf. gangrel.
 

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