spraddle-legged

American  

[sprad-l-leg-id, -legd] / ˈspræd lˌlɛg ɪd, -ˌlɛgd /

adjective

1. moving with or having the legs wide apart.

   a spraddle-legged walk.

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adverb

1. with the legs sprawled, spread apart, etc..

   sitting spraddle-legged on the chair.

Etymology

Origin of spraddle-legged

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

A few bought canned stuff from the general store at the roadside, walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized.

From Time Magazine Archive

More mindful of its deadly speed, its paralyzing armament, than of its spraddle-legged look on the ground, proud Bell Aircraft called it "Airacobra."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he went out with his spraddle-legged, short-backswing "telephone booth" stroke, and won the Doral Open itself, with a nine-under-par 275 for 72 holes, which gave him a one-stroke victory and $20,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cattle experts believe that the epidemic of dwarfism may be a result of breeding beef cattle for squat, spraddle-legged, "blocky" figures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, in the glow of our lamplight, came the sergeant-major standing spraddle-legged in front of us.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot