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Lankiness
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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lanky
1630s, "straight and flat," used of hair, from lank; sense of "awkwardly tall and thin" is first recorded 1818.
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