elbowy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Tall and awkward. (of a person’s body)

   • Flora, rather freckly, elbowy, and far too tall, was none the less about to be pretty.
   • Where I was big, elbowy and grating, he was small, graceful and smooth.
2. 2

   Awkward

   Awkward; especially, involving the awkward protrusion of the elbows. (of a person’s movement)

   • […] I was noticing how very elbowy his gestures were […]
   • She squirted in some liquid soap with an elbowy throwing motion.
   • I looked for Becker and his buddies—and there they were. Twenty yards away, moving through the crowd in an awkward, elbowy, distinctly non-New York way.
3. 3

   Having bends that resemble elbows. (of a tree or branches)

   • […] he looked up and saw that one of the elbowy dead trees was grimed with vultures.
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   1. 4

      Angular in an awkward way. (of a built structure)

      • It is a place fit for a lady of her quality, and none of your elbowy dwellings like these crowded about us. One may easily tell the house, by its pretty blinds and its shades.
      • The town (Abingdon) is a tumbled-up, elbowy, crooked old place, with the houses all frowning at each other across the gutters, and the streets narrow and intricate.

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