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In some senses, lanky is marked as derogatory, informal, colloquial, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
all, fellow, long, tall
VERB + LANKY
spoke
LANKY + NOUN
', business, guy, urdu
ADV.
always, awkwardly
adj
Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
tall and lanky
awkwardly lanky
name
The dialect of English spoken in Lancashire.
The rest of us , whether we spoke Lanky or Urdu, whether we were born in Karachi or Keighley, could go to hell.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
The Lanky was 'The Business Line' – cotton, wool and coal – but a lot of northern towns now had their own 'wakes' or holiday week, and the Lanky was all for that, because then people wanted to pack up, and they wanted to be off.
We had an extra pilot [engine] on summer Saturdays for excursion traffic and on this particular day we had a Lanky ' A ' class.
noun
Someone from Lancashire.
It is often observed that Lankies (Lancashire folk), on entering a room, whether in the heat of summer or the cold of winter, invariably rush to the fire-place.
I am what a Yorkshireman would call a 'Lanky', and perhaps as poor a specimen of the cotton county's human produce as ever trounced barefoot through its lanes, or shuddered at the sound of its factory bells.
tall and lanky
Wiktionaryawkwardly lanky
Wiktionarylong, lanky frame
WiktionaryThe rest of us , whether we spoke Lanky or Urdu, whether we were born in Karachi or Keighley, could go to hell.
WiktionaryThe Lanky was 'The Business Line' – cotton, wool and coal – but a lot of northern towns now had their own 'wakes' or holiday week, and the Lanky was all for that, because then people wanted to pack up
WiktionaryWe had an extra pilot [engine] on summer Saturdays for excursion traffic and on this particular day we had a Lanky ' A ' class.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, lanky is marked as derogatory, informal, colloquial, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.