Usually means: Thin, weak legs resembling spindles.
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  4. spindlelegs: Wiktionary
  5. spindlelegs: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. spindlelegs: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  12. Spindlelegs: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. spindlelegs: FreeDictionary.org
  14. spindlelegs: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ noun:  (archaic, derogatory) A person with long thin legs.

Similar:
spindleshanks, spider, legspinner, skeleton, leg-spinner, turnspit, spanker, string bean, lanklet, spial, more...

Opposite:
stocky, sturdy, muscular, robust, hefty

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Similar:
spindleshanks, spider, legspinner, skeleton, leg-spinner, turnspit, spanker, string bean, lanklet, spial, more...

Opposite:
stocky, sturdy, muscular, robust, hefty



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