spraddle
- noun
- Archaic
:
posición abierta
- I've got to be up bright and fresh for those spraddle-legged coat hangers.
- spraddle-legged
Examples
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A tripod leans spraddle-legged against one wall, and the equipment cases have broken open.
Fiction book (1994) -
Bowe's warm, twitching body was thrown onto the table, wrenching his legs open in the spraddle of all the women whose children he had murdered.
Fiction book (1999) -
I sit spraddle-legged, pointing Long Boy's length while looking at Stella fleeing into the dark.
Fiction book (1992) -
The dog stood spraddle-legged on the deck, barking with all its might at a man cowering in a corner.
Fiction book (1991) -
Out beyond the surfers, he could see the drilling platforms standing in the channel, spraddle-legged, sucking at the bottom.
Fiction book (1998) -
Or assume a spraddle-legged stance before his daughter and her girlfriend, both young teenagers, to ask if they could tell whether he was wearing briefs or boxers under his trousers.
Fiction book (1998) -
He planted himself, spraddle-legged, before her, weapon in hand.
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The dog stood spraddle-legged on the deck, barking with all its might at a man cowering in a corner.
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I sit spraddle-legged, pointing Long Boy's length while looking at Stella fleeing into the dark.
Synonyms
5
6.7
The position of sitting or standing with one leg on each side of something
1
5.5
An awkward position with arms and legs spread out
1
5.4
A position of sitting or standing with a leg on each side of something
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spraddle is like a simple mix of spread 'to open out' and straddle 'sit with legs on each side', so a spraddle is a wide, awkward position where the legs or arms are spread apart.