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bandy-legged

[ ban-dee-leg-id, -legd ]

adjective

  1. having crooked legs; bowlegged.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bandy-legged1

First recorded in 1680–90

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Example Sentences

The epithets are carefully arranged up a scale until they reach bandy-legged—an utterly unpardonable insult.

Close behind him came another: a bandy-legged, squat fellow like a little black spider, in attendance.

The wood-box yielded him; a small, jovial, bandy-legged puppy.

The man was a small bandy-legged creature, with eyes that squinted, a complexion like ham fat and waxed moustaches.

He was a little bandy-legged body, with a large aquiline nose, a hunched back, and a most sinister squint.

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