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adjective laŋklæŋk 1(of hair) long, limp, and straight. the man had lank, brown, greasy hair Example sentencesExamples - Her usually glossy hair was lank with dirt and dry with malnutrition.
- With their tracksuit tops, lank hair and implausibly fresh faces, they look more like teenage scallies than harbingers of a musical revolution, but their enthusiasm is infectious.
- She was plumpish with lank hair and a pasty complexion, not very clean, scruffily dressed - very unappetising, I thought.
- Then she pulled her lank hair into a high pony tail and left her room again.
- We must be endlessly alert to avoid yellowing teeth, body odours, bad breath, baggy eyes, lank hair, grey hair or body hair.
- My hair was lank and dull, I was very thin, brown pigmentation began to spread up my arms and on my cheeks; I was depressingly unattractive.
- His head was covered in a bronze helm, and his long lank hair fell to his shoulders.
- And as for Miller, the slight, wiry frame is the same, the lank hair slightly longer, but there still seems enough about his game to make a difference to a club that has been toiling.
- Add to this stained teeth, bad breath, red eyes, lank hair, discoloured fingers and erectile dysfunction, and the list grows alarming.
- He has lank hair, with a receding hairline, and nice hands.
- His hair was lank and black and, for preference, he wore a black top hat.
- So I listed ‘one eye smaller than the other, slightly big nose, yellow teeth, lank hair and droopy boobs from the side’.
- Thank God for the Venue, where dirty, spotty, black-clad youth still go to shake their lank hair to the Sisters of Mercy.
- Close up, Penny could see he had mud in his long lank hair.
- She belongs round the back of the bike sheds, her hair is lank, her eyes are usually dull, and she is not expected to be a high-achiever academically.
- Her huge dark eyes, lank hair and ripped jeans make her the perfect ‘alternative’ preteen crush.
- Milton stood at the window, hands clasped behind his back, his shoulder-length hair limp and lank.
- She had darting, small brown eyes and the light seemed to pass with ease through the large ears protruding through her oily, lank hair…
- Ava shook her head briskly, her lank hair flying around her shoulders.
Synonyms limp, lifeless, lustreless straggling, straggly, dull, unkempt, untidy straight, long informal ratty 2(of a person) lanky. he sprawled his long, lank figure over a chair Example sentencesExamples - The man, now 25 years old, was lank and thin, bound to a bed by the wrists and ankles, his mouth sealed with electrical tape.
- First of all, his lank, angular appearance combined with his monotone voice and gloomy disposition aren't very soothing and reassuring.
- He was thin and dark as the world itself, like a plant stuck in the shadows, growing tall and lank, reaching for the sun that was just a little higher… always a little higher out of reach of the Dark.
- Draped across them, their cloaks seemed to hang on bodies thin and lank.
- De Peisser, loathe to chase heels, is heaving a pack triply out of proportion to his lank, spindly frame.
Synonyms tall, thin, slender, slim, lean, skinny, spindly, spare, gangling, gangly, scrawny, skeletal, scraggy, emaciated, size-zero, bony, gaunt, raw-boned, gawky, rangy, skin-and-bones, angular, pinched, attenuated tall, thin, slender, slim, lean, lanky, skinny, spindly, spare, gangling, gangly, scrawny, skeletal, scraggy, emaciated, size-zero, bony, gaunt, raw-boned, gawky, rangy, skin-and-bones, angular, pinched, attenuated
Derivatives adverb He was very tall and muscular and bronzed and lightly tattooed, with long blond hair that hung lankly down his back. Example sentencesExamples - He has grown up into a lean, furtive young man; his hair flopping lankly over a sharp fox's nose.
- Her hair, which normally hung lankly over her shoulders, was all fluffed out and piled up on top of her head like that of some Greek goddess.
- Most, actually, were barefoot and clad only in cotton hospital gowns, their stringy hair clinging lankly to their foreheads.
- Hmmm, I guess what I'm seeing now is how he'd really look without the help of on-screen make-up, and with what's left of his hair uncombed and flapping lankly.
noun
Origin Old English hlanc 'thin', of Germanic origin; related to German lenken 'to bend, turn', also to flinch and link1. Rhymes ankh, bank, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, outflank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank adjectivelaŋklæŋk South African informal 1Very numerous or plentiful. come and share our braai—we've got lank meat
Origin Sense 1 is perhaps from Afrikaans geld lank 'money galore'; sense 2 may be related to Afrikaans lank nie sleg nie 'not at all bad'. adjectivelæŋklaNGk 1(of hair) long, limp, and straight. Example sentencesExamples - Ava shook her head briskly, her lank hair flying around her shoulders.
- She had darting, small brown eyes and the light seemed to pass with ease through the large ears protruding through her oily, lank hair…
- She was plumpish with lank hair and a pasty complexion, not very clean, scruffily dressed - very unappetising, I thought.
- Close up, Penny could see he had mud in his long lank hair.
- Add to this stained teeth, bad breath, red eyes, lank hair, discoloured fingers and erectile dysfunction, and the list grows alarming.
- Milton stood at the window, hands clasped behind his back, his shoulder-length hair limp and lank.
- His head was covered in a bronze helm, and his long lank hair fell to his shoulders.
- So I listed ‘one eye smaller than the other, slightly big nose, yellow teeth, lank hair and droopy boobs from the side’.
- She belongs round the back of the bike sheds, her hair is lank, her eyes are usually dull, and she is not expected to be a high-achiever academically.
- With their tracksuit tops, lank hair and implausibly fresh faces, they look more like teenage scallies than harbingers of a musical revolution, but their enthusiasm is infectious.
- His hair was lank and black and, for preference, he wore a black top hat.
- And as for Miller, the slight, wiry frame is the same, the lank hair slightly longer, but there still seems enough about his game to make a difference to a club that has been toiling.
- Then she pulled her lank hair into a high pony tail and left her room again.
- We must be endlessly alert to avoid yellowing teeth, body odours, bad breath, baggy eyes, lank hair, grey hair or body hair.
- Her usually glossy hair was lank with dirt and dry with malnutrition.
- My hair was lank and dull, I was very thin, brown pigmentation began to spread up my arms and on my cheeks; I was depressingly unattractive.
- He has lank hair, with a receding hairline, and nice hands.
- Her huge dark eyes, lank hair and ripped jeans make her the perfect ‘alternative’ preteen crush.
- Thank God for the Venue, where dirty, spotty, black-clad youth still go to shake their lank hair to the Sisters of Mercy.
Synonyms limp, lifeless, lustreless - 1.1 (of a person) lanky.
Example sentencesExamples - He was thin and dark as the world itself, like a plant stuck in the shadows, growing tall and lank, reaching for the sun that was just a little higher… always a little higher out of reach of the Dark.
- The man, now 25 years old, was lank and thin, bound to a bed by the wrists and ankles, his mouth sealed with electrical tape.
- De Peisser, loathe to chase heels, is heaving a pack triply out of proportion to his lank, spindly frame.
- Draped across them, their cloaks seemed to hang on bodies thin and lank.
- First of all, his lank, angular appearance combined with his monotone voice and gloomy disposition aren't very soothing and reassuring.
Synonyms tall, thin, slender, slim, lean, lanky, skinny, spindly, spare, gangling, gangly, scrawny, skeletal, scraggy, emaciated, size-zero, bony, gaunt, raw-boned, gawky, rangy, skin-and-bones, angular, pinched, attenuated
Origin Old English hlanc ‘thin’, of Germanic origin; related to German lenken ‘to bend, turn’, also to flinch and link. adjectivelæŋklaNGk South African informal 1Very numerous or plentiful. come and share our braai—we've got lank meat
Origin Sense 1 is perhaps from Afrikaans geld lank ‘money galore’; sense 2 may be related to Afrikaans lank nie sleg nie ‘not at all bad’. |