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Definition of Spindleshanks
1. Noun. A thin person with long thin legs.
2. Noun. Long thin legs.
Definition of Spindleshanks
1. n. A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
Definition of Spindleshanks
1. Noun. (archaic derogatory) A thin, lanky person with long legs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spindleshanks
Literary usage of Spindleshanks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1871)
"... and the spindleshanks which the name of Black- lock and of many of his sons
reveal, nothing of the coarseness which somehow or other we cannot separate ..."
2. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1891)
"Miss spindleshanks, by Omar ... MARE (sister to Soldier), Bred by Mr O'KELLY, in
1787, her dam, Miss spindleshanks, by Omar— Starling—Godolphin Arabian. ..."
3. Eclipse & OK̓elly: Being a Complete History So Far as is Known of that by Theodore Andrea Cook (1907)
"(Miss spindleshanks). This mare is own sister to Soldier, &c. 28 Madcap, a bay
mare, got by Eclipse, her dam by Blank, grand dam by Blaze—Greyhound—Curwen ..."
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