bow-legged


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bow-legged

[ˈbəʊˈlegɪd] ADJ [person] → estevado, que tiene las piernas en arco; [stance] → con las piernas en arco
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bow-legged

[ˌbəʊˈlɛgɪd] adj (person) → con le gambe arcuate
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Peter, his companion, was a very different sort of fellow; short, bow-legged, and as fat as butter.
The bow-legged children in the Gardens are these who had to walk too soon because their father needed the perambulator.
"Haven't seen a bow-legged, dirty-faced little devil of a six-year- old loot kid around here anywhere, have you?"
With regard to Roland, or Rotolando, or Orlando (for the histories call him by all these names), I am of opinion, and hold, that he was of middle height, broad-shouldered, rather bow-legged, swarthy-complexioned, red-bearded, with a hairy body and a severe expression of countenance, a man of few words, but very polite and well-bred."
As the impetus that carried Cherokee forward died down, he continued to go forward of his own volition, in a swift, bow-legged run.
He was a small man and very bow-legged and he ran awkwardly.
He wore a ridiculously small bowler hat, a dirty old raincoat with a carnation in the lapel, and walked with a strange bow-legged gait like a monkey.
You know how to make a short, bald-headed, bow-legged, 85-year-old grin like a fox eating sauerkraut" Musician Quincy Jones after being honoured by Hollywood's Chinese Theatre.
You know how to make a short, bald-headed, bow-legged, 85-year-old grin like a fox eating sauerkraut" - Musician Quincy Jones after being honoured by Hollywood's Chinese Theatre.
"As an elderly reindeer, Forest had developed arthritis which manifests itself as appearing 'bow-legged'.
"Yet the chunky entertainer, dubbed 'Farmer' for his West Country accent and bow-legged gait, had all the natural ability to become a lasting Everton star."
The most common of these is that it leaves the baby bow-legged (sakang)-it does not.