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duck-legged

duck-legged adjective: having short legs.

Adjective

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

  1. Having short legs.

Forms of duck-legged

comparativemore duck-legged
superlativemost duck-legged

Questions about duck-legged

What does duck-legged mean?
Duck-legged means having short legs.
What part of speech is duck-legged?
Duck-legged is an adjective.

Words near duck-legged in the dictionary

  1. duck-faces
  2. duck-footed
  3. duck-frost
  4. duck-hawk
  5. duck-hawks
  6. duck-legged
  7. duck-shove
  8. duck-shoved
  9. duck-shover
  10. duck-shoves
  11. duck-shoving

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