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Longlegs   /lˈɔŋlˌɛgz/   Listen
Longlegs

noun
1.
Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.  Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird.



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"Longlegs" Quotes from Famous Books



... without his stays? All these men are objects whom the observer of human life and manners may contemplate with as much profit as the most elderly Belgravian Venus, or inveterate Mayfair Jezebel. An old reprobate daddy-longlegs, who has never said his prayers (except perhaps in public) these fifty years: an old buck who still clings to as many of the habits of youth as his feeble grasp of health can hold by: who has given up the bottle, but sits with young fellows over it, and tells naughty stories upon ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Longlegs" :   shore bird, white-headed stilt, Himantopus novae-zelandiae, shorebird, Himantopus mexicanus, Himantopus himantopus, genus Himantopus, Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus, black-necked stilt, black-winged stilt, limicoline bird, kaki, Himantopus



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