duck-legged

[ duhk-leg-idor, especially British, -legd ]

adjective

1. having legs that are unusually short:

   He crept up in a half-crouch that made him look duck-legged.

Word History and Origins

Origin of duck-legged¹

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

Duck-legged, short-waisted, such a dwarf she is That she must rise on tiptoe for a kiss.

From Project Gutenberg

The most popular of all songs with the class, however, is "Duck-legged Dick," of which I give the first verse.

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We may picture him as a humid duck-legged little man, most terribly homesick, most tremendously lonely, most distressingly alien.

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"That's just because you're a duck-legged snipe," answered Gid wrathfully.

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