Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A long-legged person.
- n. A bird of the genus Himantopus; a stilt.
Wiktionary
- n. A bird, the stilt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The stilt.
Examples
“Ada is more than a head taller than I am; Father said: Hullo you longshanks, how you have shot up.”
“Now, Cappin, what did you ever see in that blasted longshanks, Oakenberg, -- that called himself a doctor -- a fellow that sickened and killed more good fellows with his yarbs and poultices than he'll ever meet in heaven, -- what did you see in that skunk of a fellow to make you do for him what you did?”
“There is definitley a school thought that the "stone of scone" that was blagged by eddie longshanks was simply a lump of local sandstone subsituted by the monks at scone Abbey, as they knew edward was coming to get it, as he reckoned that Robert the Bruce could not be crowned legaly or at least traditionaly without the "STONE "you have to bear in mind that to the monks, this stone was in fact "Jacobs Pillow " of biblical fame.”
“Ada is more than a head taller than I am; Father said: "Hullo you longshanks, how you have shot up.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘longshanks’.
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Even More 250 Spelling Words
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Amalgamations
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The Porn Birds
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Words To Use In Creative Writing
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
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logophile
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Australian
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Words that kick serious ass
juggernaut, haymaker, gung-ho, frag, smite, blunderbuss, gargantuan, ragnarok, ripsnorter, herculean, silverback, firebrand and 127 more...
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the best
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for longshanks.
reesetee Really? Wonder whether they're connected in some way? Dec 8, 2007
chained_bear Also a nickname for Edward I. ;) Dec 8, 2007
reesetee Obsolete nickname for the Black-Necked Stilt. Also see lawyer bird. Dec 7, 2007