Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An insect having long legs, such as the Tipula oleracea or common crane-fly and its congeners. See daddy-longlegs.
- n. The European stilt, Himantopus candidus.
Wiktionary
- n. A daddy longlegs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A daddy longlegs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
- n. long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
Examples
“Not even those daddy longlegs that are supposed to be harmless.”
“He has never been partial to the supports that, like the legs of daddy longlegs spiders, angle out from lower decks to hold them upright while their keels rest on the forest floor, but there was no better way to park a sharp-keeled ship on land.”
“And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day.”
“And ready to stop hiding out with the bikes, tools, and a spry daddy longlegs spider.”
“As Dad now says, Kerri looked like a daddy longlegs spider out on the sand.”
“It looks like daddy longlegs are growing out of her eye sockets.”
“With their irrational fear of spiders, arachnophobes are scared of both harmless daddy longlegs and poisonous brown recluse spiders.”
“It was especially concerned about miserable summers that were making life difficult for creatures from craneflies or daddy-longlegs to species of butterflies, members of the tit family and bats.”
The Guardian: British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather
“And those poor old daddy longlegs have continued to suffer.”
The Guardian: British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather
“It looked like a stylized matte black daddy longlegs.”
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