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leggy

[ leg-ee ]

adjective

leggier, leggiest.
  1. having awkwardly long legs.
  2. having long, attractively shaped legs:

    a group of tanned, leggy swimmers.

  3. of, relating to, or characterized by showing the legs:

    a leggy stage show.

  4. (of plants) long and thin; spindly.


leggy

/ ˈ±ôɛɡɪ /

adjective

  1. having unusually long legs
  2. (of a woman) having long and shapely legs
  3. (of a plant) having an unusually long and weak stem
  4. (esp of a sportsperson) sluggish or fatigued; having tired legs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±ô±ð²µ²µ¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ô±ð²µî€ƒg¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of leggy1

First recorded in 1780–90; leg + -y 1
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Los Angeles was Chandler’s terrain, as much of a muse as any of the leggy blonds that populated his fiction.

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Australia started to flag on Sunday but I think Scotland made them look leggy.

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Conservationists at the zoo said there are less than 600 surviving wild onagers, but the birth "of the leggy youngster" could help safeguard the species from extinction.

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She hurtled through the air most weeks as Lynda Carter’s stunt double on the hit television series “Wonder Woman†and mimed Ms. Carter’s leggy lope.

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Arsenal's players looked leggy and jaded for most of the second half and exhausted by the end.

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