Lanky

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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