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leggy

/leg-ee/US // ˈlɛg i //UK // (ˈlɛɡɪ) //

腿长,腿部,跛脚,腿脚不便

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    leg·gi·er, leg·gi·est.

    • : having awkwardly long legs.
    • : having long, attractively shaped legs: a group of tanned, leggy swimmers.
    • : of, relating to, or characterized by showing thelegs: a leggy stage show.
    • : long and thin; spindly.

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Examples

  • Producers, he says, like to pan out from the glass-topped anchor desks to get a shot of the leggy correspondents.

  • He may launch a television or radio talk show, with his lovely, leggy young wife as co-host.

  • By the time she was a leggy teen, Frosted was spending every spare moment at "the flickers."

  • Among her other assets, McCaughey has the leggy blonde Ann Coulter-looks that producers like in their right wingers.

  • As a girl she had been what a certain sporting earl described as "a leggy beauty."

  • Parson Leggy was the other would-be mediator; for he hated to see the two principal parishioners of his tiny cure at enmity.

  • "As quick as a cat, with the heart of a lion and the temper of Nick's self," was Parson Leggy's description.

  • Parson Leggy declared roundly that his like had not been seen since the days of Rex son of Rally.

  • Parson Leggy danced an unclerical jig, and shook hands with the squire till both those fine old gentlemen were purple in the face.