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Meanings of leggy in English

Having long legs.

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        Examples for "long-legged"
        Examples for "long-legged"
        1
        Ayla looked across the water at the large, long-billed, long-legged, stately birds.
        The Plains of Passage
        2
        Archer is a long-legged 28-year-old northern Calif. who stands six feet six.
        The new yorker
        3
        Broad- shouldered and long-legged, he looked too large for the silver chair.
        Career of Evil
        4
        Beside the Mississippians lay a regiment of long-legged, sinewy riflemen from Arkansas.
        The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
        5
        The long-legged Stork started also, but that was only for a joke.
        The Curious Book of Birds
        1
        It is always well to put some tall-growing plant in the centre.
        The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
        2
        The tall-growing hardy phlox is a garden mainstay through August, September and October.
        Making a Garden of Perennials
        3
        Moreover, tall-growing crops, like pole beans, are kept to the north of lower ones.
        Home Vegetable Gardening / A Complete and Practical Guide to the...
        4
        Securely staking tall-growing plants is necessary if one desires neatness and effectiveness in the garden.
        Making a Garden of Perennials
        5
        The tall-growing hardy phlox should be in all gardens.
        Making a Garden of Perennials
        1
        Quickly, with a lilt in her movement, she fetched her work-basket, and together they examined the long-shanked old scissors.
        The Prussian Officer
        2
        He shot the five shots without appreciable sighting before each, as fast as his thumb could pull back the long-shanked hammer.
        The Rules of the Game
        3
        He laid great stress and emphasis on having 'his short pipe' with him, probably reserving a regular long-shanked 'churchwarden' for home use.
        Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
        4
        Black Kettle, Connell and several other men began to smoke a long-shanked pipe that they passed around the semicircle with great ceremony.
        Frontier courtship
        5
        'Out of the way with these long-shanked flamingoes!'
        Norse Tales and Sketches
        Usage of leggy in English
        1
        His attention was one hundred and ten percent on the leggy brunette.
        A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
        2
        It wouldn't be that leggy blonde in the loan office, would it?
        Hell hath no fury
        3
        Not that a leggy, 118-pound woman can't get by with minimal effort.
        With friends like these
        4
        I assume that as a Swede, I will be a leggy blonde.
        Funny in Farsi
        5
        Angie was a leggy redhead I'd hardly exchanged two words with.
        Dead ever after
        6
        Most men of that size are just leggy and gawky: he is neither.
        Winding Paths
        7
        The leggy girl had just thrust out her tongue at an expostulating nurse.
        The Purple Heights
        8
        She was a tall, leggy platinum blond with a sensational figure.
        Death angel
        9
        From a shapeless gray-gold fuzzy baby, she grew lank and leggy.
        Further Adventures of Lad
        10
        Felicia and Ena were two leggy creatures in their early teens.
        The Information Officer
        11
        When I saw you last, you were awkward and leggy, like a colt.
        The Valley of the Giants
        12
        A leggy blond woman and a six-year-old girl stood outside it.
        Coyote dreams
        13
        Also, adult-targeting movies are often leggy as older moviegoers take longer to support films.
        Reuters
        14
        Please, please, please, don't vote for me! the leggy brunette pleaded with her teammates.
        Stand by your hitman
        15
        Kane is scoring again after a slow start but often seems a bit leggy.
        The Guardian
        16
        Beautiful and leggy in her high-heeled sandals and thigh-length dress.
        Too close to home
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