spindleshanks
noun
spindle-shanked
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a word derived from
spindleshanks.
Example Sentences
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A rugged character, which showed even in childhood, made him, at 14, a spindle-shanked but determined assistant village tax collector.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was one Mary Hickman, teacher, addressing spindle-shanked Jimmy Edwin Christman, aged nine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Remarkable creatures they were, about an inch high; their bodies were uncouth but agile — spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies; they had pendulous cheeks, tiny eyes and huge mouths, capable of infinite expression.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a squad, it epitomizes the current trend in basketball away from the spindle-shanked hotshot and the gawky goon, toward towering, robust and superbly coordinated players who can run at top speed all night.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Done!" says I. "To think," groans Jack, blowing out his cheeks and striking himself a violent blow in the chest, "to think of a pale-faced, pranked-out, spindle-shanked, mealy-mouthed popinjay like him!"
From The Honourable Mr. Tawnish by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock
