LONG-LEGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-legged mean? 

• LONG-LEGGED (adjective)
  The adjective LONG-LEGGED has 1 sense:

1. having long legs

  Familiarity information: LONG-LEGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG-LEGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having long legs

Synonyms:

leggy; long-legged; long-shanked

Similar:

tall (great in vertical dimension; high in stature)

 Context examples 

Far down the road a long-legged figure was running, with a bundle under one arm and the other hand to his side, like a man who laughs until he is sore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some were short-legged—too short; others were long-legged—too long.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Wot box?” said the long-legged young man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the very day that we fought over the little hussy, she went off with Evan ap Price, a long-legged Welsh dagsman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Wot job?” said the long-legged young man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a long-legged young man with a very little empty donkey-cart, standing near the Obelisk, in the Blackfriars Road, whose eye I caught as I was going by, and who, addressing me as Sixpenn'orth of bad ha'pence, hoped I should know him agin to swear to—in allusion, I have no doubt, to my staring at him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I put it in my mouth for safety, and though my hands trembled a good deal, had just tied the card on very much to my satisfaction, when I felt myself violently chucked under the chin by the long-legged young man, and saw my half-guinea fly out of my mouth into his hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Done with you for a tanner! said the long-legged young man, and directly got upon his cart, which was nothing but a large wooden tray on wheels, and rattled away at such a rate, that it was as much as I could do to keep pace with the donkey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)