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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
leggy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a leggy blonde
▪ Robert arrived at the party with a leggy brunette.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago.
▪ According to my neighbour on the other side, this apartment contained something very unusual in the way of leggy redheads.
▪ But Marcos chooses to stay behind the harpsichord and leggy ficus.
▪ But they were never bushy, had little foliage and looked leggy.
▪ Instead of cheerleaders, King would hire leggy card girls.
▪ Nice enough creature, I suppose - leggy, dark hair.
▪ The redhead was leggy and had a terrific figure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leggy

Leggy \Leg"gy\ (l[e^]g"g[y^]), a.

  1. having tall spindly stems; -- of plants. [WordNet sense 1]

    Syn: tall-growing.

  2. Having long legs. [WordNet sense 2]
    --Thackeray.

    Syn: long-legged, long-shanked.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
leggy

1787, from leg (n.) + -y (2).

Wiktionary
leggy

a. 1 (context UK US English) Having long, attractive legs; long-legged. Generally said of a young woman. 2 Taller or longer than usual.

WordNet
leggy
  1. adj. (of plants) having tall spindly stems [syn: tall-growing]

  2. having long legs [syn: long-legged, long-shanked]

  3. [also: leggiest, leggier]

Wikipedia
Leggy

Leggy dolls, are MOD 10 inch fashion dolls that were released by Hasbro in North America, Polistil in Europe and Shiba in Japan from 1972 to 1973. The Hasbro and Polistil dolls are the same dolls, while the Japanese dolls differ. The Hasbro dolls were given names, while the Polistil dolls are identified by number.

They have a very exaggerated appearance, even though they are 10 inches tall. They are very thin dolls (the waist is less than 0.75 inches across) and they have 7 inch legs. Each doll in the standard editions came packaged on a large blister card with a stock outfit, pants, platform shoes and a plastic stand. Their unusual appearance makes them good models for a variety of fashion doll clothing, including their own line of MOD fashions.

Usage examples of "leggy".

There was a biggish kraal in the bottom, and a lot of goats and leggy Kaffir sheep on the slopes.

And Spatchcock, Culweather and Moist and Leggy Gaskin and Horace Nancyball and .

Leggy girls in skimpy tops and satin shorts that covered a tenth of their gluteal regions skated by, transforming the walkways between the palms into fleshy freeways.

The rest of the herd seemed to take inspiration from Shalkan, for in an instant, every single unicorn, from the flame-red stallion to a pair of leggy hornless foals, was bounding along after Shalkan, as smooth and flowing as a flight of birds.

Some leggy Brazilian who Jackie bumped into doing the lambada in a suburban nightclub?

At the bottom they were bifurcated, trifurcated, multifurcated into rooty legs or leggy roots on which they wandered about in a rather desultory way, sometimes tripping each other out of what seemed to be sheer ill nature.

She had a dynamite body, tall and leggy, her oil-glistened curves all but spilling out of the bright pink bikini she was wearing.

Across from me, Brenda was busily sketching and in a minute she showed us: a slim, leggy blonde with my hair and face, dressed in a skin-tight black bodysuit, a revolver strapped to her hip, a bow and quiver at her back, and a knife in a sheath at her calf.

T-shirts to find a tall, leggy, thirtyish saleslady, librarian glasses perched on her nose above a lushly pursed mouth, looking past her, eyeing the MacKeltar with fascination.

He trains Last Hope by walking him and galloping him along the country roads in person, and taking care of him as if he is a baby, and what with this work, and the jog up from Miami, Last Hope fills out very strong and hearty, and anybody must admit that he is not a bad-looking beetle, though maybe a little more leggy than some like to see.

She even knew which shifters they were, Barfod Bartiban, thalan to Leggy Bartiban, and Torben Naffleloose.

I could make out a number of features: clusters of tumbleweeds, like giant beach balls, creosote bushes, bayonet cactuses, yuccas, and the leggy branches of the palo verde trees.

Joyce Emily walked, and then skipped, leggy and uncontrolled for her age, in the opposite direction, and the Brodie set was left to their secret life as it had been six years ago in their childhood.

He tried to remember the name of the leggy, sweet-faced non-sheep the colonists had defaulted to when dust and radiation took its toll on their original ungulates, but could only come up with the apparently appropriate word guano, which he knew wasn’t right.

She could have been one of my good-looking, leggy graduate students from a tobacco farm in the Carolinas, or just as easily, a self-directed thirty-three-year-old assistant professor at the University of Georgia.