lank
Meanings
Adjective
- Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
- Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
- Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
- Languid; drooping, slack.
Verb
- To become lank.
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Origin
- From Middle English lank, from Old English hlanc, from Proto-West Germanic *hlank, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kleng-; confer German lenken, Gelenk, Old High German hlanca, and English link .
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