Definition of "elbowy" in İngilizce

adjective

1. Tall and awkward. (of a person’s body)

   • 1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Society Leader” in Black Beetles in Amber, San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Company, p. 85, Doubtless it gratifies you to observe Elbowy girls and adipose mamas All looking adoration as you swerve This way and that;

2. Awkward; especially, involving the awkward protrusion of the elbows. (of a person’s movement)

3. Having bends that resemble elbows. (of a tree or branches)

   • 1928, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, diary entry dated 3 May, 1928, in Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928, New York: Signet, 1973, p. 139, I […] looked out over my garden: the unkempt lush grass and the sweet-gum tree with elbowy boughs, crotchety and irregular.

4. Angular in an awkward way. (of a built structure)