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bowlegged

bowlegged is the alternative form of bow-legged.

Meaning of bow-legged

Adjective

bow-legged (comparative more bow-legged, superlative most bow-legged)

  1. Having bowed legs, having legs bent noticeably outward at the knee.

Forms of bowlegged

comparativemore bowlegged
superlativemost bowlegged

Words formed from bowlegged

Questions about bowlegged

What is bowlegged the alternative form of?
Bowlegged is the alternative form of bow-legged.

Words near bowlegged in the dictionary

  1. bowled around the legs
  2. bowled out
  3. bowled over
  4. bowled up
  5. bowleg
  6. bowlegged
  7. bowleggedness
  8. bowlegs
  9. Bowlen
  10. Bowlens
  11. bowler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowlegged (page history and authors); bow-legged (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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