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Leggy   /lˈɛgi/   Listen
adjective
Leggy  adj.  
1.
Having tall spindly stems; of plants.
Synonyms: tall-growing.
2.
Having long legs.
Synonyms: long-legged, long-shanked.





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"Leggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Day and Belden. I'll write it out for you and you may take my Leggy bag. Be sure and put the change in it ...
— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas
... winter of that same year I went with the Ribblesdales to stay with Peter's brother, Lord Battersea, to have a hunt. I took with me the best of hats and habits and two leggy and faded hirelings, hoping to pick up a mount. Charty having twisted her knee the day after we arrived, this enabled me to ride the horse on which Peter was to have mounted her; and full of spirits we all went off to the meet of the Bicester hounds. I had ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... they sailed over and took thorough stock of the new craft, and Jacka praised this and suggested that, and carried on quite as if he'd got captain's orders inside his hat—which was where he usually carried them. Mr. Job looked sidelong down his nose—he was a leggy old galliganter, with stiverish grey hair and a jawbone long enough to make Cap'n Jacka a new pair of shins—and said he, ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch


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