Definitions for leggy

leggy leg·gy

Spelling: [leg-ee]
IPA: /ˈlɛg i/

Leggy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in leggy (eggly).

Definitions for leggy

adjective

  1. having awkwardly long legs.
  2. having long, attractively shaped legs:
  3. of, relating to, or characterized by showing the legs:
  4. (of plants) long and thin; spindly.

Origin of leggy

First recorded in 1780-90; leg + -y1

Examples for leggy

Among her other assets, McCaughey has the leggy blonde Ann Coulter-looks that producers like in their right wingers.

The Terrier, like the Hound, must on no account be leggy, nor must he be too short in the leg.

It was very fat and army and leggy, and I think it was an idol.

This should be slightly pruned in spring, and when leggy cut to the ground.

The latter, whom some of my readers may have known as an awkward, "leggy" boy, was now a man.

Mungles may be all leggy, but not full blooded St. Bernards.

These leggy plants are not beautiful, nor do they bear many flowers.

He may launch a television or radio talk show, with his lovely, leggy young wife as co-host.

Producers, he says, like to pan out from the glass-topped anchor desks to get a shot of the leggy correspondents.

By the time she was a leggy teen, Frosted was spending every spare moment at "the flickers."

Word Value for leggy
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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