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leggy, a.|ˈlɛgɪ|
[f. leg n. + -y.]
a. Conspicuous for legs; having disproportionately long legs; lanky-legged. Also transf., long-stemmed.
1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen (1809) 32 If you are a short man, you spur the saddle cloth; if you are leggy you never touch him [the horse] at all. 1827Sporting Mag. XX. 170 Great numbers of our racers..have always been too leggy. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. at Breakfast-Table x. 310 The white meeting-house, and the row of youthful and leggy trees before it. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. (1886) 67 He looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road. 1932Times Educ. Suppl. 9 July 267/4 If plants are crowded under glass they will grow ‘leggy’. 1965H. G. W. Fogg Small Greenhouse v. 39 Put the boxes, etc., on a shelf close up under the glass of the greenhouse, to prevent the seedlings from becoming drawn and ‘leggy’.
b. slang. Characterized by a display of legs.
1866Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 7/3 This festival..has been pitiably vulgarised..by Christmas numbers of periodicals, Christmas concerts, leggy burlesques. 1887Pall Mall G. 17 Oct. 1/2 ‘Leggy’ burlesques.
Add:c. slang (orig. U.S.). Of a woman: having long, slender legs; hence, more loosely, attractive in a provocative manner; ‘sexy’.
1927C. Woolrich Children of Ritz i. 17 Angela reappeared in an enormous broad-brimmed hat that made her look like one of the Gish sisters... And she was leggier than ever. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §427/2 Well-formed young woman,..leggy femme. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 13 Nov. 8/5 (caption) They missed the chance of a close-up of three leggy lovelies who called in at a city supermarket. 1984Listener 12 Jan. 30/1 The celebrity is invariably male, assisted inevitably by a couple of leggy dollybirds. 1992N.Y. Times 23 Aug. ii. 27/5 Saturday night after Saturday night..he went through his shtik, bellowing ‘How sweet it is!’ and ‘And away we go!’, sipping his 200-proof coffee, ogling leggy women. |