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Definition of Rangy
1. Adjective. Tall and thin and having long slender limbs. "A lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man"
2. Adjective. Adapted to wandering or roaming.
3. Adjective. Allowing ample room for ranging.
Definition of Rangy
1. a. Inclined or able to range, or rove about, for considerable distances; apt or suited for much roving, -- chiefly used of cattle.
Definition of Rangy
1. Adjective. Slender and long of limb; lanky ¹
2. Adjective. Prone to roaming around with animal-like movements. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rangy
1. tall and slender [adj RANGIER, RANGIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rangy
Literary usage of Rangy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"89: "He tramps over the most rangy and inaccessible regions of the colonies. ...
"The country being rangy, somewhat scrubby, and destitute of prominent ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"89: " He tramps over the most rangy and inaccessible regions of the colonies.
... 46: "The country being rangy, somewhat scrubby, and destitute of prominent ..."
3. Public School Methods (1921)
"This sheep is recognized by its dark brown or nearly black face, by its drooping
ears, its rather coarse, rangy form, and the tendency to Roman noses, ..."
4. Dogdom: Monthly (1920)
"Of the tall rangy type, not so well finished as the one placed above it. ...
A tall rangy son of Eastwood Energy, long head, nice eye and good bone. ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"rangy PETE By GUY MORTON Net $2.00 Meet rangy Fete, as individual a character as
has appeared in fiction in many a day. At\vo-guu man who shoots from the ..."
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