bandy legs
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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He would unselfconsciously offer up his seamed face to the questioning fingers of blind fans and trot up the grandstand on his bandy legs to patiently chat with people in wheelchairs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2012
At 12, while a boarder at Fredville Park private school near Dover, she took dancing lessons, initially to straighten bandy legs.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011
Or perhaps Garrincha's moment came when it really mattered, his bandy legs delivering in the 1958 final after Brazil fell behind early on to the hosts, Sweden.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010
Mercier is "a big bony hank with a beard," and Camier has a "red face, scant hair, four chins, protruding paunch, bandy legs, beady pig eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Queen Selyse's uncle was a keg of a man with thick arms and bandy legs.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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