Bowlegs
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- proper noun
- The annual Billy Bowlegs Festival in Fort Walton Beach honors the famous Seminole chief with parades and reenactments.
- Chief Billy Bowlegs
- Bowlegs Pirate
- Bowlegs Festival
Examples
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He's deader than Chief Billy Bowlegs out of the Third Seminole War, while you two gals are just having the time of your lives.
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The coalition's effectiveness was aided by the services of a handful of multilingual slaves who acted as translators and cultural mediators between colonial officials and Native leaders such as King Payne and his brother Bowlegs.
Academic text (2017) -
During the Seminole Wars, Chief Billy Bowlegs led his warriors against U.S. forces in Florida.
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Local historians often discuss the legacy of Billy Bowlegs, a notable chief in Seminole history.
Compounds
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Legs that curve outward at the knees so the knees stay apart when the feet are together
Surface Forms
Etymology
The name Bowlegs was an English nickname for a 19th-century Seminole chief. It likely comes from bow meaning 'bent' and legs, so people called him Billy Bowlegs and that is how history remembers his resistance.