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Meanings of long-legged in English

Having long legs.

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Examples for "leggy"
Examples for "leggy"
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
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 long-legged in English
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
6
She reached out, grasped his shoulder, and stopped his gawky, long-legged strides.
Mine
7
He sat long-legged with his back leaning against a weathered stone outcropping.
Warlord of Kor
8
Perhaps their long-legged friend will give them a ticket to the show.
The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus
9
The eldest is not quite such a long-legged fellow, said Dr. May.
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
10
Six feet and three inches tall, he was long-legged, lantern-jawed and goggle-eyed.
The Redemption of David Corson
11
Don't get near us, you poisonous web weavers, you long-legged silk makers.
Bardisms
12
Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.
A Dance with Dragons
13
There she was, running in that long-legged way, with her hair flying.
The city of ember: book 1
14
At this a scrawny, tow-headed, long-armed, long-legged fellow sprang to his feet.
Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
15
Morley was full of stories, mostly about sex, mostly concerning long-legged women.
Creepers
16
A long-legged palomino colt that has to get his nose into everything.
The Outsiders
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