Meaning of elbowy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Tall and awkward. (of a person’s body)
2. Awkward; especially, involving the awkward protrusion of the elbows. (of a person’s movement)
3. Having bends that resemble elbows. (of a tree or branches)
4. Angular in an awkward way. (of a built structure)

Examples

“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.”

“1928, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, diary entry dated 3 May, 1928, in Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928, New York: Signet, 1973, p. 139, I […] looked out over my garden: the unkempt lush grass and the sweet-gum tree with elbowy boughs, crotchety and irregular.”

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

“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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