short-legged
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having short legs, particularly in proportion to one's body.
Example Sentences
- "However, small, deep-bodied, shortlegged cattle have been known in Ireland since Celtic times."
- "The two dogs were beagles, shortlegged and frantic, leaping in and out of the chest-high fall of snow, or plowing their noses through it and furrowing snow up and past their ears, their tails spinning, then looking up with white brows and whiskers, gnomic and hoary-faced as little old men."
- "A droll man with a quiet voice and a talent for mimicking almost anyone with tart accuracy, he had the mate down to a fault already, that officer's shortlegged strut, his mad glare and, at a much—reduced volume to avoid detection, his bullhorn bellow."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more short-legged (comparative)
most short-legged (superlative)