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Meanings of longlegs in inglés

catalán
himantopus
español
cigüeñela

Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.

cigüeñela
Usage of longlegs in inglés
1
Some scientists believe that climate change is making the daddy-longlegs more common here.
The Irish Times
2
But the sight of countless daddy longlegs scuttling for cover did.
Too close to home
3
This wreckage is as close as I care to come to a daddy-longlegs.
The Guardian
4
A big daddy-longlegs scuttled toward a refuge under the pool table.
Dayworld
5
A daddy longlegs was high-stepping it up my sleeve.
Cross Bones
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Mike fired the rubber band and the daddy longlegs scurried away from the impact site.
Summer of Night
7
Instead, he simply shook and threw his legs and arms gingerly, like a daddy longlegs.
Say you're one of them
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Screams of longlegs increased, and killing sticks were raised.
Genellan: planetfall
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Millipedes skittered as I shifted objects, and at one point a daddy longlegs high-stepped up my arm.
Fatal Voyage
10
The daddy longlegs was Renaud Pasteur.
Bones to Ashes
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We put snow in her bed so that she would think she'd peed, and daddy-longlegs into her cooking ingredients.
The Guardian
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The dentist was one of the oddest-looking men I'd ever met, with wild, dandelion hair and a daddy-longlegs build.
Deadly Décisions
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After lunch I was led into a large room filled with what looked like a giant, robotic daddy longlegs.
The Council of Dads
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Braan looked back at the other longlegs, Giant-one and One-arm, stumbling drunkenly over the prairie grasses in the far distance.
Genellan: planetfall
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He was shooting at a daddy longlegs on the ceiling with a rubber band that he would retrieve after each ricochet.
Summer of Night
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Mike O'Rourke's last shot with the rubber band went wild and the daddy longlegs escaped into a crack in the roof.
Summer of Night
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Translations for longlegs
catalán
himantopus
Longlegs through the time