Today's Word "rangy "
Slim and long-limbed
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rangy \RAYN-jee\ (adjective) - 1 : Slim and long-limbed. 2 : Inclined to roaming.
"Bernhard was a rangy, spirited man in his seventies with a shock of greying red hair who resembled nothing so much as a bemused, intelligent stork."
From Middle English range (row), from Old French rangier (to arrange). Ultimately from Indo-European root sker- (to turn or bend), the source of ranch, rank, shrink, circle, crisp, search, ring, curb, ridge, and curve.
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