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Gangly vs Storky - What's the difference?

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Gangly is a synonym of storky.


As adjectives the difference between gangly and storky

is that gangly is tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness while storky is resembling a stork.

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.}}

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    storky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • resembling a stork
  • (by analogy) tall and long-limbed
  • Synonyms

    *(tall and long-limbed) gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy