bandy-legged
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bandy (“bowlegged”) + legged.
Adjective
[edit]bandy-legged (comparative more bandy-legged, superlative most bandy-legged)
- Synonym of bow-legged, having knees which bend outward.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Once some bandy-legged, lurching creature, an ant-eater or a bear, scuttled clumsily amid the shadows.