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Leggy   /lˈɛgi/   Listen
Leggy

adjective
1.
(of plants) having tall spindly stems.  Synonym: tall-growing.
2.
Having long legs.  Synonyms: long-legged, long-shanked.






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"Leggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... together. He was almost as big as Karns; she was a green-eyed redhead whose five-ten and one-fifty would have looked big except for the arrangement thereof. There were Bernadine and Hermione van der Moen, the leggy, breasty, platinum-blonde twins—both of whom were Cowper medalists in physics. There was Etienne de Vaux, the mathematical wizard; and Rebecca Eisenstein, the black-haired, flashing-eyed ex-infant-prodigy theoretical astronomer. There was ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith



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