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Duck-legged   Listen
adjective
Duck-legged  adj.  Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Duck-legged" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Git! you duck-legged, egg-suckin', skunk-backed loafers! Go on, there! Aw, don't yer talk back to me 'r I'll let m' horse bite yer pants off! Back yer go! Forrard! Hump! ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers

... the beachcombers who nauseated him; the white sands, the blue waters, the smells, the sounds, the routine of existence with one day precisely like another—the whole thing of it. We may picture him as a humid duck-legged little man, most terribly homesick, most tremendously lonely, most distressingly alien. We may go further and picture him as a sort of combination of Job with his afflictions, Robinson Crusoe with no man Friday to cheer him ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb



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