0 A person, usually a boy or young man, who is very tall and thin and moves awkwardly: --
a gangly youth
His fever was so severe that he saw strange, gangly creaures stalking his neighborhood.
The creature is long, gangly, eight feet tall and wears silk and velvet robes.
It grows clumpy or gangly and generally erect stems in shades of gray and red which are lined with small linear green leaves.
He has gangly arms and legs, and braces on his teeth.
Ignoring this, the snake easily manipulates the boy's gangly frame by twisting him round to hang from the branch.
It resembles him to a slight degree, being tall, narrow and gangly, almost like a black skeleton and having glowing red eyes.
Geezil is a tall, bald, gangly man dressed all in black, wearing a black derby hat.
Tall, gangly and ridiculously shy, he loathes the fuss made over him since his celebrity.