bandy-legged

English

Bandy legs (varus deformity)

Etymology

From bandy (“bowlegged”) + legged.

Adjective

bandy-legged (comparative more bandy-legged, superlative most bandy-legged)

Synonym of bow-legged, having knees which bend outward.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  Once some bandy-legged, lurching creature, an ant-eater or a bear, scuttled clumsily amid the shadows.

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