Lank
[langk] /læŋk/
adjective, lanker, lankest.
1.
(of plants) unduly long and slender:
lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
2.
(of hair) straight and limp; without spring or curl.
3.
lean; gaunt; thin.
/læŋk/
adjective
1.
long and limp
2.
thin or gaunt
/læŋk/
adjective, adverb
1.
(South African, informal) a lot; a great deal
adj.
Old English hlanc “loose and empty, slender, flaccid,” from Proto-Germanic *khlankaz, perhaps from a root meaning “flexible” (cf. German lenken “to bend, turn aside,” Old Norse hlykkr “bend, noose, loop”), from PIE root *kleng- “to bend, turn” (see link (n.)). “Some examples may be long adj. with unvoicing of g” [“Middle English Dictionary”]
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