Very skinny male human

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As Asparagus Tarzan are colloquially and metaphorically with strikingly low men and boys body weight and a slim physique ( ectomorphic called).

The asparagus symbolizes the extremely thin, albeit large, stature and pale appearance of the person concerned. Tarzan alludes to the character Tarzan invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs .

The former German national soccer player Hannes Bongartz was called that.

The metaphor is mostly used in colloquial, good-natured, ironic everyday usage; the female equivalent of an asparagus arzan is called a beanstalk .

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