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bow legs

/ bəʊˈlɛɡɪd; bəʊ; bəʊˈlɛɡd /

plural noun

  1. a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh Also calledbandy legs


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Derived Forms

  • bow-legged, adjective

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Example Sentences

He was short of his age, with rather bow-legs, and little sharp ugly eyes.

He held himself so proudly that it seemed to straighten some of the crook out of his bow legs.

It is indeed a fatal error and one which has made bow-legs common among little children.

"Them bow-legs" was a phrase into which he poured a degree of self-contempt altogether pitiful.

The bile and the bow-legs aint really there, you know; we only think so, which is just as bad as if they was there.

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