duck-legged
[ duhk-leg-id or, especially British, -legd ]
adjective
having legs that are unusually short: He crept up in a half-crouch that made him look duck-legged.
Origin of duck-legged
1First recorded in 1640–50
Words Nearby duck-legged
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How to use duck-legged in a sentence
duck-legged, short-waisted, such a dwarf she is That she must rise on tiptoe for a kiss.
Caricature and Other Comic Art | James Parton.The most popular of all songs with the class, however, is "duck-legged Dick," of which I give the first verse.
We may picture him as a humid duck-legged little man, most terribly homesick, most tremendously lonely, most distressingly alien.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. Cobb"That's just because you're a duck-legged snipe," answered Gid wrathfully.
Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) | John McElroy
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