Definitions

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  • adjective resembling a stork
  • adjective by analogy tall and long-limbed

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Examples

  • At night when I drive into the parking lot there's a ditch to the right and I keep seeing a strange bird, a looney bird, a crane, a storky, egrettish thing, standing sentinel on the bank.

    Houston diary 2010

  • They come from remote levels of development, from technicians and bombheads in their computer universe—storky bespectacled men who deal with systems so layered and many-connected that the ensuing arrays of words must be atomized and redesigned, made spare and letter-sleek.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Filmed under the title THE KIRLIAN FORCE by former actor (THE LEGS DIAMOND STORY, Jess Franco's LUCKY THE INSCRUTABLE) Ray Danton (who also directed DEATHMASTER and narrates here), PSYCHIC KILLER begins in medias res, with Hutton's storky Arnold Masters suffering a freakout in a rundown psychiatric clinic overseen by sympathetic but essentially useless psychiatrist Julia Adams (at the time Mrs. Ray Danton).

    Don't even think it Arbogast 2008

  • They come from remote levels of development, from technicians and bombheads in their computer universe—storky bespectacled men who deal with systems so layered and many-connected that the ensuing arrays of words must be atomized and redesigned, made spare and letter-sleek.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • On teh previous thred we has a darn ‘n’ storky story goin!

    Mak it like dis. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • They come from remote levels of development, from technicians and bombheads in their computer universe—storky bespectacled men who deal with systems so layered and many-connected that the ensuing arrays of words must be atomized and redesigned, made spare and letter-sleek.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • All kinds of birds, small black swallows, big white storky ones, green parrots, all squawking and chirping and cawing.

    The Killing Sea Richard Lewis 2006

  • All kinds of birds, small black swallows, big white storky ones, green parrots, all squawking and chirping and cawing.

    The Killing Sea Richard Lewis 2006

  • They had a daughter as well, Charlize, a storky fourteen-year-old who spent her waking hours trolling the Internet for celebrity gossip.

    The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

  • “The welt eventually faded, as did my anger, replaced first by disdain for this storky, nasal, pushy radio hack, and later by admiration for his humor and intelligent doggedness in pursuit of a story, and finally by an enormous appreciation for the most important sports journalist of this century, and one of the most influential electronic voices of our time.”

    Sound and Fury Dave Kindred 2006

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