Meaning of Lanky | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The dialect of English spoken in Lancashire.
2. Someone from Lancashire.
3. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
   colloquial, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“The rest of us , whether we spoke Lanky or Urdu, whether we were born in Karachi or Keighley, could go to hell.”

“The Lanky was 'The Business Line' – cotton, wool and coal – but a lot of northern towns now had their own 'wakes' or holiday week, and the Lanky was all for that, because then people wanted to pack up, and they wanted to be off.”

“We had an extra pilot [engine] on summer Saturdays for excursion traffic and on this particular day we had a Lanky ' A ' class.”

“It is often observed that Lankies (Lancashire folk), on entering a room, whether in the heat of summer or the cold of winter, invariably rush to the fire-place.”

“I am what a Yorkshireman would call a 'Lanky', and perhaps as poor a specimen of the cotton county's human produce as ever trounced barefoot through its lanes, or shuddered at the sound of its factory bells.”

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