(a) A long, slim, awkward fellow; a lout. (b) A person who is long in doing anything; a laggard, a lingerer.

A lanky, loose-jointed person or animal. Cf. gangling, adj.2 1. Now rare (English regional (northern) in later use).

A lanky person (? or thing).

In extended use: a tall, thin person or object.

? A lanky person.

slang. A tall, thin person.

(See quot. 1699) Obsolete. rare.

A foolish or silly person, a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly.

A tall and limp or flaccid person. Scottish.

one used for beans to twine round, figurative a lanky fellow.

figurative. Applied to a thin lanky person, or one of feeble health or character.

Used as n., as a nickname or form of address for a lanky person.

Physical Anthropology. In racial classification: a slimly built person of tall stature. Now disused.

(a person with) a leptosomic physique; also as adj., = leptosomic, adj.

(a) U.S. the French or kidney bean; (b) U.S. colloquial, a tall thin person; also transferred.

colloquial (originally Australian). A tall, thin person.