spindle legs
(also spindleshanks /ˈspindlˌSHaNGks/)
plural noun
1Long thin legs.The friend told that her head looked too big for her body and her thin spindle legs looked like they couldn't support the weight of her shoes....
- The furniture is either light, with spindle legs and wicker, or it is of a light color: the heaviest piece, the sofa, is made with the lightest color fabric, an off-white that's even paler than the pale pink walls.
- He swears, shivers, swings spindle legs off the bed and lurches, teeth bared, into the stinging spray.
1.1 [treated as singular] A person with long thin legs.
Derivatives
spindle-legged
- The grasshopper seemed quite minuscule in comparison to the beast towering high above him, who could easily toss the gangling spindle-legged insect to one side with a single gesture of his monstrous paws.
- The calves are born in May and are spindle-legged little creatures for the first few days.
- Two spindle-legged chairs covered with a lilac butterfly fabric coordinated to match the round white table.
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