longlegs
See also: long legs
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]longlegs (plural longlegs or longlegses)
- A daddy longlegs.
- 1855 August 11, “Mrs. Grundy on the Alteration of Food”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 29, page 55:
- No longlegses could make me jump like them queer creatures in a drop on it, […]
- 2017, Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals[1], Cambridge University Press, page 87:
- Thinking with animals – be it with sheep and dogs or with longlegs, moths, dumbledores, and flies – allows Hardy and his readers to reconsider what it means to be part of “the whole conscious world collectively,” […]