† slangamn.
Obsolete. rare.
? A lanky person.
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lungis1572
gangrel1582
slangrel1592
maypole1600
slangam1611
mackerel-back1674
spider-catcher1699
gilly-gaupus?1719
tangle1778
beanpole1798
windlestraw1818
lankyc1863
narrowback1921
leptosome1931
string-bean1936
streak1941
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Longis,..a tall and dull slangam, that hath no making to his height, nor wit to his making.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxv. 116 Codshead loobies, woodcock slangams,..and other such like defamatory epithetes.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. i. 5 The little Grammar school-boyes..called those leg-grown slangams Iambus.
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