rangy
pronunciation
How to pronounce rangy in British English:
UK [ˈreɪndʒi]
How to pronounce rangy in American English:
US [ˈrendʒi]
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- Adjective:
- tall and thin and having long slender limbs
- adapted to wandering or roaming
- allowing ample room for ranging
Word Origin
- rangy (adj.)
- "having a long, slender form" (as an animal suited to ranging), 1845, from range (v.) + -y (2). Also "adapted for ranging" (1868). Of landscapes, "hilly," 1862, Australian English. Related: Ranginess. As a rule, we hold that the Jersey should be "growthy," deep-flanked, and loose-jointed, and should have, generally, the characteristics which farmers know as "rangy." ["American Agriculturalist," November 1876]
Example
- 1. He was rangy , leathery , sun-baked and virile .
- 2. All rangy and mangy like a rough old dog .
- 3. She posted that , later , a " rangy handsome delivery boy with big eyes and white skin " had delivered her order .
- 4. But a tall rangy forward youngster named thomas , who has emerged as one of the most exciting young forwards in the bundesliga .
- 5. In my relatively free versions of some of transtr mer 's poems I have attempted to steer a middle ground between lowell 's rangy risk-taking rewritings and the traditional strictly literal approach .