adjective
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having unusually long legs
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(of a woman) having long and shapely legs
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(of a plant) having an unusually long and weak stem
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(esp of a sportsperson) sluggish or fatigued; having tired legs
Other Word Forms
- legginess noun
Etymology
Origin of leggy
Example Sentences
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Seeing him paw the ground and whinny only served to emphasize how leggy and coltish he had become.
From Literature
Isak gradually worked his way into the game, but started to look leggy as the first half came to a close.
From BBC
He says this seriously, even though he’s striding around Streisand’s 3-acre property like a leggy teenager.
From Los Angeles Times
With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot.
From BBC
Los Angeles was Chandler’s terrain, as much of a muse as any of the leggy blonds that populated his fiction.
From Los Angeles Times
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