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Gangly vs Bony - What's the difference?

gangly | bony |

As adjectives the difference between gangly and bony

is that gangly is tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness while bony is resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.

gangly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.
  • * 1872 , , chapter VII
  • I should have shot that long gangly lubber they called Hank, if I could have done it without crippling six or seven other people—but of course I couldn't
  • * 1917 , , chapter XV
  • A rangy, gangly , Scandinavian youth of a sailor, droop-shouldered, six feet six and slender as a lath, with pallid eyes of palest blue and skin and hair attuned to the same colour scheme, joined Kwaque in his work.
  • * 2007 , Oswald J. Schmitz, Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation? , page 34
  • Individuals of this rabbit species tend to be very large (about the size of a beagle dog); they have long ears and long, gangly legs and a very thin fur coats.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=[Peter Crouch] The gangly striker played a one-two with Jermaine Pennant as the winger cut in from the right, and although Pennant easily jinked past centre-half Brede Hangeland, he shot narrowly wide of the far post.}}

    Synonyms

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    bony

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boney

    Adjective

    (er)
  • resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
  • full of bones
  • with little flesh; skinny, thin
  • having prominent bones