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Definition of Bandy-legged
1. Adjective. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
Definition of Bandy-legged
1. Adjective. bow-legged; having knees which bend outward ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bandy-legged
Literary usage of Bandy-legged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science MonthlyScie (1893)
"Glasgow's bandy-legged children (5 p., 8 il.). G. Hay, 25 : 400. Hawaiian
leprosy (Misc.), 20 : 567. Heart-D. and overwork (Misc.), 3 : 779. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"Evidently an injury cramping the growth at this time can not be remedied ; and
if the children have any tendency to become bandy-legged or knock-kneed, ..."
3. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"of enormous strength and insatiable appetite. He was bandy-legged, had an elastic
stomach, and four rows of teeth. He was a paladin of Charlemagne, ..."
4. Master Skylark: A Story of Shakspere's Time by John Bennett (1897)
"... CHAPTER XXXIV THE bandy-legged MAN UNTIL night fell they sought the town over
for a trace of Cicely; but all to no avail. The second day likewise. ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"bandy-legged " = " KNOCK-KNEED " (9th S. vii. 124). ... CCB " bandy-legged " is
in use on Tyneside, but n quite the opposite sense to "knock-kneed. ..."
6. Lexilogus; Or, A Critical Examination of the Meaning and Etymology of by Philipp Buttmann, John Roles Fishlake (1846)
"bandy-legged he was, and lame in one foot" is, I think, a beginning for the
description of Ther- sites not unworthy of Homer. I об. ..."
7. Argot and Slang: A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words by Albert Marie Victor Barrère (1889)
"Italique, / (popular), avoir les jambes en —, to be bandy-legged. Pincer son —,
to reel about. Jabot, m. (popular), stomach, or "bread-basket. ..."
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