Short-legged
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Short-legged is an adjective meaning Having short legs, particularly in proportion to one's body.
Meaning
Having short legs, particularly in proportion to one's body.
Example Sentences
However, small, deep-bodied, shortlegged cattle have been known in Ireland since Celtic times.
A droll man with a quiet voice and a talent for mimicking almost anyone with tart accuracy, he had the mate down to a fault already, that officer's shortlegged strut, his mad glare and, at a much—reduced volume to avoid detection, his bullhorn bellow.
The two dogs were beagles, shortlegged and frantic, leaping in and out of the chest-high fall of snow, or plowing their noses through it and furrowing snow up and past their ears, their tails spinning, then looking up with white brows and whiskers, gnomic and hoary-faced as little old men.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include duck-legged, long-legged, short, longlimbed, leggy, leptosomatic.
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