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longlegs

longlegs noun: a daddy longlegs.

Noun

longlegs (plural longlegs or longlegses)

  1. 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 55
    • 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

Forms of longlegs

plurallonglegs
plurallonglegses

Plural of longlegs: longlegs or longlegses

Phrases with longlegs

Questions about longlegs

What does longlegs mean?
Longlegs means a daddy longlegs.
What part of speech is longlegs?
Longlegs is a noun.
What is the plural of longlegs?
The plural of longlegs is longlegs.

Words near longlegs in the dictionary

  1. longleaf pine
  2. longleaf pines
  3. longleafs
  4. longleaves
  5. longlegged
  6. longlegs
  7. longlegses
  8. Longleng
  9. Longlevens
  10. Longley
  11. Longleys

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