lathy
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lathy (comparative lathier, superlative lathiest)
- (archaic) Like a lath; long and slender.
- 1851, George H. Borrow, chapter V, in Lavengro[1]:
- The man was somewhat younger, but of a figure equally wild; his frame was long and lathy, but his arms were remarkably short, his neck was rather bent, he squinted slightly, and his mouth was much away; …
- 1854, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches[2]:
- In this way he was dragged out; and as he crept up the bank, with the wet pouring from his apparel, which now clung tightly to his lathy limbs, he was greeted by the jeers of Nicholas.
- 1911, Hamilton Drummond, The Justice of the King[3]:
- And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, A Diversity of Creatures[4]:
- 'Twas just a bit o' lathy old plank which Jim had throwed acrost the brook for his own conveniences.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 25:
- This one was tall and stocky, with a square head and fat nose; he looked more like a Negro than a lathy starving Indian […]