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Definition of Lankiest
1. lanky [adj] - See also: lanky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lankiest
Literary usage of Lankiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1897)
"By now she is the lankiest cat in the county." " I know; I have felt her." "
Must feel like an eel; does n't she ? " asked June, interested. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"... everybody who had not been dancing before, felt themselves irresistibly drawn
into the general vortex. The apothecary, the chief and lankiest of the ..."
3. Panama: The Canal, the Country, and the People by Arthur Bullard (1911)
"While I was stocking up on linen clothes, I was approached by the tallest,
lankiest, blackest negro on the island. ..."
4. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington, Townsend Young (1871)
"Their mother literally " towered above her sex," and was the lankiest and most
bristly sow I ever beheld. Her high arched back, taller than a donkey's, ..."
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