bandy
3
8.1
- adjective
- /ˈbændi/
- Archaic
:
arqueado
- The creature sprang from the sill, landing on broad, splaytoed feet and bandy legs of wonderful elasticity.
- bandy-legged
- bandy legs
- bandy-legged man
Examples
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A touch over four feet tall, barrel-chested and bandy-legged, he had the thick, clammy skin of a swamp dweller, and slightly bulbous, friendly black eyes.
Fiction book (1992) -
She followed the bandy-legged waddle of old Anglo-Indian ladies through rooms crowded with quaint colonial knick-knacks.
Fiction book (2002) -
Notice the bandy legs, the strong arms.
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You mean you'd stand a chance if she had bandy legs and a hump?
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It was like watching a bandy-legged terrier shake the life out of a rat.
Fiction book (1997) -
Old Abe staggered through the mud, bandy-legged from a decade's habit of staying upright while drunk.
Fiction book (1990) -
The speaker was bandy-legged, stocky, with grizzled hair falling in ringlets around his pointed ears.
Fiction book (1995) -
The bandy-legged briefer, Captain Cyrus Cirrus, did not tell C.R. what he wanted to hear.
Fiction book (2000) -
Yama jumped up—a springy man, muscular, bandy-legged.
Fiction book (2000) -
The sailor had bandy legs from years of climbing up and down the tall ship's rigging.
Synonyms
3
6.8
Having legs that curve outward at the knees so the knees are apart when the feet are together
2
6.6
Legs that curve outward at the knees and leave a space between them when the feet are together
1
8.6
Legs that curve outward at the knees and look like a bow
Having legs that curve outward at the knees so the knees are far apart when standing with feet together
Curved so they bend outward, like some legs
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Etymology
The adjective bandy comes from an old sense of being 'bent' or 'bowed', so bandy knees are legs that curve outward at the knees. That's why bandy describes legs that are curved outward.