OriginClipping of Lancashire with -y.
- The dialect of English spoken in Lancashire.
“The rest of us , whether we spoke Lanky or Urdu, whether we were born in Karachi or Keighley, could go to hell.”
- colloquial, historicalThe Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
“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”
“We had an extra pilot [engine] on summer Saturdays for excursion traffic and on this particular day we had a Lanky ' A ' class.”
- Someone from Lancashire.
“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”
- not-comparableFrom Lancashire or having distinctive Lancashire traits.
“Despite several stellar features - amongst others Phelps - he was Lanky, too”
“In any case, Butch spoke the Yankee way, not the Lanky way and, no matter where you look, it's not until the football age of industry and terraces that Homo Northwestus gets heroes.”
“Burnley's deputy mayor, Alderman Keighley, sent them on their way with a brief address, which concluded with a Lanky send-off for Lancashire lads”
FormsLankies(plural)