Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Bowlegged.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having bandy or crooked legs; bow-legged.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having crooked legs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective bow-legged; having knees which bend outward

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective have legs that curve outward at the knees

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Examples

  • This bandy-legged, sawed-off little rat racer is awfully interesting in its own right.

    Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing Dan Neil 2010

  • Short, bandy-legged and remarkably intense, Daniel plays Hatuey, the leader of the resistance against Columbus and the first Indian to be burned on a cross, as well as the firebrand leader of the Bolivian resistance against the water privateers.

    'Unknown': Unmoored, Overcooked Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • A bandy-legged, bull-chested man with gray eyes and black hair that hung loose to his shoulders, draped in a heavy bear-pelt cloak and wearing a golden torque as thick as her wrist around his heavily muscled neck.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • It ' s not a good sign, or portent, or whatever, that the only affecting character in " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 " proves to be the emancipated elf Dobby, a bandy-legged, floppy-eared, scrawny-necked and mostly digital creature — based on Toby Jones ' s performance — who yanks really hard at your heartstrings in his hour of distress.

    ' Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • A bandy-legged, bull-chested man with gray eyes and black hair that hung loose to his shoulders, draped in a heavy bear-pelt cloak and wearing a golden torque as thick as her wrist around his heavily muscled neck.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • A bandy-legged, bull-chested man with gray eyes and black hair that hung loose to his shoulders, draped in a heavy bear-pelt cloak and wearing a golden torque as thick as her wrist around his heavily muscled neck.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • The beating happened in the summer of 1933, a year after Fisher, as Dahl records in his own letters home, had left Repton to become Bishop of Chester.96 More than fifty years later, however, Dahl blamed the “shoddy bandy-legged” Fisher for the caning, and painted him as a sanctimonious hypocrite.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

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