Meanings
plural longlegses
- A daddy longlegs.
No longlegses could make me jump like them queer creatures in a drop on it, […]
1855 August 11, “Mrs. Grundy on the Alteration of Food”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 29, page 551 more example
Thinking with animals – be it with sheep and dogs or with longlegs, moths, dumbledores, and flies – allows Hardy and his readers to reconsider what it means to be part of “the whole conscious world collectively,” […]
2017, Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals, Cambridge University Press, page 87
Synonyms & antonyms
nounlong-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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