19 April 2015

rangy

[reyn-jee]

adjective, rangier, rangiest.

1. (of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.

2. given to or fitted for ranging or moving about, as animals.

3. mountainous.

Origin of rangy

1865-1870; range + -y1

Related forms

ranginess, noun

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Examples from the web for rangy

– He was a rangy, charming workhorse of a photographer.

– It’s in the blood of a rangy stud, and the heart of a mustang mare.

– The tall, rangy shrubs are creosote bush, an incredibly durable desert plant that forms clones in an expanding ring.

Anagram

angry

Today’s aphorism

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

– John Steinbeck

On this day

19 April 1987 – The Simpsons is first aired on television in the United States.

19 April 1993 – 70 members of the cult Branch Davidian sect, led by David Koresh, perish following a fire at their Waco compound. It is believed they lit the fire deliberately as federal agents stormed the compound following a siege that began in February 1993.

19 April 1995 – Terrorist Timothy McVeigh detonates a bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring 680 people. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on 11 June 2001.