daddy-longlegs love

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  • noun Alternative form of daddy longlegs

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Examples

  • 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.

    British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather 2010

  • One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • One of those daddy-longlegs arms came at me and I slipped it, but it just kept unfolding.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • He can watch a ladybug make its way across the driveway for half an hour, happily play with a daddy-longlegs spider until the spider (usually missing at least one long leg by this point) escapes, examine with awe the trail of ants marching up our ash tree.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • He can watch a ladybug make its way across the driveway for half an hour, happily play with a daddy-longlegs spider until the spider (usually missing at least one long leg by this point) escapes, examine with awe the trail of ants marching up our ash tree.

    A Leaf Rain 2005

  • An old reprobate daddy-longlegs, who has never said his prayers

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Lucy jumped if a daddy-longlegs walked within a yard of her, and everyone knew that daddy-longlegs were about as scary as Puff the Magic Dragon.

    Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003

  • Groping under the couch with one arm, a complex network of cobwebs is disturbed, sending a family of daddy-longlegs scampering.

    ME MYSELF I PIP KARMEL 1971

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