1) Exclusively Saxon word 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) Gangly 4) Gaunt 5) Gaunt and thin 6) Hardly portly 7) Lacking any curl 8) Lacking curl 9) Lean 10) Lean and gaunt 11) Lean and long 12) Lean, skinny and long 13) Like a string bean 14) Like a stringbean 15) Like many a hoopster 16) Like young abe lincoln 1) Lean 2) Spindly 
• (v. i. & t.) To become lank; to make lank. • (superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. • (superl.) Languid; drooping.
Lank adjective [ Compar. Lanker ; superl. Lankest .] [ AS . hlanc ; confer German lenken to turn, gelenk joint, Old High German hlanca hip, side, flank, and English link of a chain.] 1. ...Lank intransitive verb & t. To become lank; to make lank. [ Obsolete] Shak. G. Fletcher. 
[adj] - long and thin and often limp 2. [adj] - long and lean
spindly adjective long and lean