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What is "lank" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does lank mean in English? Meaning of lank definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "lank" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "lank": long and thin and often limp

Adjective

  • Meaning: long and thin and often limp
  • Example: grown lank with fasting lank mousy hair
  • Synonyms: lank
  • Similar: long

    • Meaning of "lank": long and lean

    Adjective

  • Meaning: long and lean
  • Synonyms: lank spindly
  • Similar: lean thin
  • Adjective: Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. Meager and lank with fasting grown. - Jonathan Swift. Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - Isaac Barrow. Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter 1.Meager and lank with fasting grown. - Jonathan Swift.Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - Isaac Barrow.Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter 1.(of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy) Lank hair, long, thin hair. - Thomas Babington MacaulayLank hair, long, thin hair. - Thomas Babington Macaulay(obsolete) languid; drooping. Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. - John Milton (Can we find and add a quotation of Macaulay to this entry?)Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. - John Milton

    • Synonyms:

    attenuate, beanpole, cadaverous, emaciated, ethereal, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lanky, lean, lightweight, peaked, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, rickety, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, slender, slim, slinky, spindly, starved, twiggy, underweight, wan, weedy, wizened, all skin and bones, angular, attenuated, beanstalk, bony, delicate, featherweight, fleshless, meager, narrow, pinched, reedy, scraggy, shadow, shriveled, slight, small, spare, stalky, stick, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiglike, undernourished, wasted,

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