Rangy vs Ranga - What's the difference?
rangy | ranga |
Slender and long of limb; lanky
:For an accountant, Robert had a rangy appearance.
:Her African violets weren't getting enough sun and became rangy .
Prone to roaming around with animal-like movements.
Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.
(Australia, slang, pejorative) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
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As an adjective rangy
is slender and long of limb; lanky.As a noun ranga is
an orange-haired or red-haired person.rangy
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- You?re looking down upon ‘rangas ’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
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- Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country?s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can?t tell.
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- Fez?s resolutions:
- 3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.