armgaunt

adj

Etymology

Perhaps arm + gaunt.

  1. derived from galbinus
  2. derived from jaunet — “yellowish
  3. derived from *ǵénh₁tis
  4. derived from *gentis
  5. derived from gēns — “clan, tribe; country, nation; family; people
  6. derived from gant
  7. derived from *gandaz — “stick; staff
  8. derived from gandr — “magic staff; stick
  9. inherited from gaunt
  10. compounded as armgaunt — “arm + gaunt

Definitions

  1. Of uncertain meaning

    Of uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.

    • And soberly did mount an armgaunt steed.
    • Quixote comes, in battered mail, Armgaunt, with eyes of some keen haggard hawk Far from his eyrie
    • SERVANT (Imitating the style of his master) The awful armgaunt knight who wields the Gorgon, shaking three shadowy plumes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA