The Collaborative International Dictionary
Daddy longlegs \Dad"dy long"legs`\
(Zo["o]l.) An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.
(Zo["o]l.) A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK Ireland English) The cranefly; any insect of the suborder Tipulomorpha. 2 (context Australia Canada New Zealand US English) Any (non-spider) arachnid of the order Opiliones, mostly with long thin legs; the harvestman. 3 (context loosely English) The daddy long-legs spider, any spider of the family Pholcidae.
WordNet
n. long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite [syn: crane fly]
spider-like arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs [syn: harvestman, Phalangium opilio]
Wikipedia
Daddy Longlegs is a 2006 record by folk singer John Craigie. It is his third album, and the second to feature backing band The Accidental Poets. It has many Craigie fan-favorites such as White Sands, She Saves All Her Love for Me, and the title track.
Daddy longlegs may refer to:
Daddy Longlegs is a 2009 American independent film directed by the New York based brothers Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie and produced by Tom Scott and Casey Neistat. It premiered at the 2009 Directors' Fortnight section of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival, under the title Go Get Some Rosemary. It premiered in the United States at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the non-competitive Spotlight section. It premiered commercially via IFC Films, theatrically and on-demand, on May 14, 2010.
Usage examples of "daddy longlegs".
Around me, shadows deepened and the daddy longlegs began to tiptoe down the walls, restless at my intrusion.
I raked the area with the beam of my flashlight and was treated to the bouncing of daddy longlegs as they warned me away.
And the next day it was daddy longlegs spiders in the bathtub instead of June bugs in the kitchen window.
If I talk to him in the passage at Corinium, he scuttles off like a daddy longlegs.
Earlier, looking up toward the ridge they'd have to reach, they'd seen something that might have been an immense spider, a cross between a daddy longlegs and a tarantula.
Starling watched a daddy longlegs hide in the drain of the vacant autopsy table.
Her daddy longlegs fingers began to prance across another of those gray fetish things.