- Lanky Panky
- Instant nicknames bestowed by children on tall, thin people. See also spindleshanks.
A dictionary of epithets and terms of address . Leslie Dunkling . 2015.
Lanky Panky
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spindleshanks — Applied to a person with long, thin legs since the sixteenth century, and still in playground use, according to the Opies in The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. They list the synonymous: Spindle Dick, Spindle legs, and Spindle sticks.… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
