gangling

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

[Perhaps from dialectal gang, to go, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan.]

adjective

Tall, thin, and awkwardly built: gangly, lanky, rangy, spindling, spindly. See fat/thin.

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs
  Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy

Meaning #2: ungracefully tall and thin
  Synonyms: gangly, lanky

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tynd, spinkel, splejset

Nederlands (Dutch)
slungelig

Français (French)
adj. - dégingandé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - (ugs.) schlaksig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ψηλόλιγνος

Italiano (Italian)
allampanato, scarno

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - grandalhão, comprido, frouxo

Русский (Russian)
долговязый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - larguirucho, alto y flaco

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - gänglig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
瘦长的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 瘦長的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 키가 큰

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ひょろ長い

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) طويل ونحيف وغير وسيم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮גמלוני, גבוה ורזה‬

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