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This, added to the various crowd-sourced anecdotes that pepper the text and the gusto of the prose – centipedes, for example, are distinguished by their "extravagant legginess" – makes for irresistible dipping and rambling.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

The usual faults of toy Poms are "apple-headedness"—a term which explains itself—scarcity of coat, coarseness in head or leg, tails badly carried, big ears, or protuberant eyes, legginess and weediness, or curliness.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie

Twenty-five years ago, the most noted dogs were stated as a rule to be well over 30 inches in height, but their weight for height would indicate legginess, which is an abomination in a Newfoundland.

From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert

The eastern average of 51 per cent indicates a little more legginess, whereas the interior groups tend somewhat to longer trunks.

From A Racial Study of the Fijians by Gabel, Norman E.

LEGS—The fore-legs should be dead straight, with plenty of bone, removing the body to a medium height from the ground, without approaching legginess; well coated all round.

From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert