英语词汇“spindle-shanks”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

spindle-shanks

plural noun informal, dated

1Long thin legs.

1.1 [treated as singular] A person with long thin legs.The latter role is danced by Alain Honorez, a spindle-shanks of towering talents and demonic energy, who almost (but not quite) upstaged the leads with his dazzling display of movement.

Derivatives

spindle-shanked

adjective ...

The figure of Horatio Nelson, slender, one-armed, eccentric, spindle-shanked and awkward, bestrides our naval history.
A spindle-shanked figure came into view, bent against the wind.
He suffered from poor digestion, and is said to have been spindle-shanked.

单词	spindle-shanks
释义	spindle-shanks plural noun informal, dated 1Long thin legs. 1.1 [treated as singular] A person with long thin legs.The latter role is danced by Alain Honorez, a spindle-shanks of towering talents and demonic energy, who almost (but not quite) upstaged the leads with his dazzling display of movement. Derivatives spindle-shanked adjective ... The figure of Horatio Nelson, slender, one-armed, eccentric, spindle-shanked and awkward, bestrides our naval history. A spindle-shanked figure came into view, bent against the wind. He suffered from poor digestion, and is said to have been spindle-shanked.
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