What does elbowy mean?
Elbowy means Tall and awkward. (of a person’s body).
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Tall and awkward. (of a person’s body).
1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Society Leader” in Black Beetles in Amber, San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Company, p. 85, Doubtless it gratifies you to observe Elbowy girls and adipose mamas All looking adoration as you swerve This way and that;
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.
He is a tall man with shaggy hair and bad teeth, in a suit too big for his sharp, elbowy frame.
[…] 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.
“Well, you better like it,” she said, hiking up her red-and-white hosiery with an indelicate, elbowy gesture that reminded Sara of a football coach.
Use elbowy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elbowy means Tall and awkward. (of a person’s body).
Common synonyms include gangly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Society Leader” in Black Beetles in Amber, San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Company, p. 85, Doubtless it gratifies you to observe Elbowy girls and adipose mamas All looking adoration as you swerve This way and that;
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