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Definitions: Lanky |
LankyAdjective1. Tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man". 2. Ungracefully tall and thin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lanky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: LankySynonyms: gangling (adj), gangly (adj), rangy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Height | Tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky; (thin). |
Narrowness Thinness | Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lanky |
| English words defined with "lanky": boned ♦ gangling, gangly ♦ rangy ♦ shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken ♦ withered, wizen, wizened. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lanky": Hair stand on End. (references) |
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Screenplays | Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. (The Thin Man; writing credit: Dashiell Hammett; Albert Hackett) | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The proprietor, a sullen lanky man, sat in a chair on the porch. |
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| "Lanky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lanky" is used about 81 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 81 | 36,835 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "lanky": lanky person. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lanky man | 40 |
lanky people | 12 |
lanky | 12 |
boy lanky | 4 |
find kong lanky | 2 |
lanky pugman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lanky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stërhell (gangling), i gjatë dhe i hollë (linear, tall and thin), hollak (lank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | على نحو طويل من الهزال, طويل وضامر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | като върлина (slab-sided), дългунест (gangling, lathy, slab-sided). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vytáhlý (spindly), vyèouhlý (gangling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lang (at great length, for a long time, long, of high stature, of long standing, prolonged, protracted, tall), groot (adult, big, extensive, full-grown, great, large, of high stature, spacious, tall, vast, wide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | altstatura (of high stature, tall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لندوک , درازوباریک (Narrow, Weedy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hintelä (slender, slim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | grand et maigre, dégingandé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlaksig (gangling, gawky), schlacksig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ισχνόσ και υψηλόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'בו" ורז" (rangy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyurga (gangling, gaunt, lathy, overgrown, slab-muscled, slab-sided, spindling, spindly), hórihorgas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alto e dinoccolato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ひょう窃 (accidentally, by chance, flutter, frail, hurt, long and thin, maybe, perhaps, piracy, plagiarism, possibly, smart, swaying, tall and thin, to feelcool, unexpectedly, unsteady steps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひょろひょろ (frail, swaying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), shang (emaciated, gaunt, gracile, lank, lean, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy), keyl (attenuated, drawn out, fine, gracile, hairline, lean, narrow, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, tapered, thin, watery, watery of soup, weak, weak as solution, willowy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ankylay liso (event, flat, glossy surface, hardware, level, plain, plane, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, unruffled), esguio (lank, lean, rangy, slender, slim, thin). (various references) lung şi subţire (lank), lins (lank, liched, lick, licking, sleek, smooth, smoothed), rar (choice, exceptional, far between, infrequent, lank, occasionally, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thin, thinly, uncommon, unusual). (various references) долговязый (gangling, gangly, lathy, rangy). (various references) visok i mršav. (various references) larguirucho (gangling). (various references) gänglig (slender, slim). (various references) sırık gibi (gangling, lank, tall and thin), ince uzun (elongated). (various references) худий (angular, attenuate, emaciate, emaciated, ill-conditioned, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, scrannel, skimpy, spare, spiny, thin), довгов'язий. (various references) gầy v cao lêu nghêu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Lanky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anky, flanky, Jankyn, lacky, Lakya, lanc, Lancy, laney, langy, lanka, lankey, Lanly, lanny, Lany, larky, lasky, Laskys, Launey, lenci, lenky, leny, lincki, Linkia, linky, lnk, lunky, manky, ranky, Slansky, wanky, yanky, zanky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lanky" (pronounced la"ngkē) |
| 4 | -a" ng k ē | cranky, hanky. |
| 3 | -ng k ē | chunky, clunky, dinky, donkey, funky, honky, hunky, inky, junkie, junky, kinky, monkey, Pinkie, pinky, punky, slinky, spunky, stinky, swanky. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: alky, laky, lank, yank. | |
-2 letters: any, kay, lay, nay, yak. | |
-3 letters: al, an, ay, ka, la, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-l-n-y" | |
+1 letter: alkyne, dankly, lankly, rankly. | |
+2 letters: alkynes, blankly, crankly, frankly, ladykin, lankily, nakedly, snakily. | |
+3 letters: ankylose, bankerly, claybank, crankily, ladykins, sneakily, swankily, takingly. | |
+4 letters: ankylosed, ankyloses, ankylosis, ankylotic, claybanks, knavishly, lackeying, rackingly, thinkably, workmanly. | |
+5 letters: alkalinity, alkylating, alkylation, ankylosaur, ankylosing, clankingly, jaywalking, mistakenly, playmaking, prankishly, skylarking, sneakingly, thankfully, unladylike, unshakably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6E 6B 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -. -.- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101110 01101011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a n k y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006E 006B 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667807791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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