lank
adjective/læŋk/
/læŋk/
- (of hair) straight, not bright and not attractive
- Her lank black hair dropped lifelessly to her shoulders.
- (South African English, informal) large in number or amount
- I've got lank work to do.
Word OriginSense 1: Old English hlanc ‘thin’, of Germanic origin; related to High German lenken ‘to bend, turn’, also to flinch and link. Sense 2: perhaps from Afrikaans geld lank ‘money galore’.
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