lank
pronunciation
How to pronounce lank in British English:
UK [læŋk]
How to pronounce lank in American English:
US [læŋk]
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- Adjective:
- long and thin and often limp
- long and lean
Word Origin
- lank
- lank: see link
- lank (adj.)
- Old English hlanc "loose and empty, slender, flaccid," from Proto-Germanic *hlanka-, forming words meaning "to bend, turn," perhaps with a connecting notion of "flexible" (see flank (n.)). In Middle English, "Some examples may be long adj. with unvoicing of g" ["Middle English Dictionary"]
Example
- 1. That will lank him in prison .
- 2. Oh , ex not the day seem lank and long , when all go right and nothing go wrong ?
- 3. Oh , don 't the days seem lank and long , when all goes right and nothing goes wrong ?
- 4. This is partly out of practical necessity : it is indeed thin and lank .
- 5. His lank greasy hair looked like it hadn 't been washed for a month .