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Definition of Bowlegged
1. Adjective. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
Definition of Bowlegged
1. a. Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.
Definition of Bowlegged
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of bow-legged) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bowlegged
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowlegged
Literary usage of Bowlegged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Worlds and I by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1918)
"Imagine a bowlegged bai* allowed to use its limbs too soon, and in the wrong
manner brought up in an asylum filled with other bowlegged i:. deformed babies ..."
2. Italian Romance Writers by Joseph Spencer Kennard (1906)
"He condescends to have his shoes blackened by bowlegged Zi' Domenico, ...
Even when the lovers are gone the bowlegged shoeblack continues to discuss this ..."
3. Immigrant Health and the Community by Michael Marks Davis (1921)
"Barbara, five years old, was very bowlegged and had to have her legs broken to
straighten them. Three younger children were sent to a dispensary food clinic ..."
4. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1921)
"They became bowlegged, had a waddling gait, and could with difficulty maintain
... They declared that the rachitic, bowlegged and waddling dog that was ..."
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