Uttal

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Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  2. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  3. (obsolete) languid; drooping.

Verb

  1. (rare) To become lank; to make lank.

Exempel

  • Meager and lank with fasting grown. - Jonathan Swift.
  • Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - Isaac Barrow.
  • Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter 1.
  • Lank hair, long, thin hair. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. - John Milton

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticiplankedImperfektlanked
PresensparticiplankingKomparativlanker
SuperlativlankestTredje person singular indicativ presenslanks