bandy-legs

The bandy-legs are just because he's had a bit of chaffing from riding around in that sleigh.

Seasonal Non Sequiturs Jen 2008

Both right and left claws have the upper part mobile, and bring it to bear against the lower one, and both are curved like bandy-legs, being thereby adapted for apprehension and constriction.

The History of Animals 2002

He of the bandy-legs stopped, evidently out of breath; the stallion stopped also, snorting defiance.

Rowdy of the Cross L B. M. Bower 1905

"Then watch me, bandy-legs, while I put yer bed down in regulation style."

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army 1895

And, as bandy-legs or such physical deformities in children are held to be the consequence of bad nursing, so, if in a mind so beautiful any moral twist or handiness could be found, Miss Sally

The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

A broad sofa ranged along the wall, and was kept in countenance by a legion of leather-bottomed chairs, which sprawled their bandy-legs to a perilous compass, like a high Dutch skater squaring the yard.

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832

And, as bandy-legs or such physical deformities in children are held to be the consequence of bad nursing, so, if in a mind so beautiful any moral twist or handiness could be found, Miss Sally Brass's nurse was alone to blame.

Old Curiosity Shop 1800

"Did you see how that stunted little fellow with a snub-nose and bandy-legs, who is as broad as he is long, showed all his teeth in a delighted grin when I praised his steady hand?

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

"Did you see how that stunted little fellow with a snub-nose and bandy-legs, who is as broad as he is long, showed all his teeth in a delighted grin when I praised his steady hand?

The Sisters — Complete Georg Ebers 1867