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Examples
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First thing that comes to mind If someone asked you to 'leggit' would you know what to do?
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A singil lawyer an her lycra-leggit secretary intromittit the silence, shooglin past on a courtesy electric caur.
Links purge Ray Girvan 2004
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A singil lawyer an her lycra-leggit secretary intromittit the silence, shooglin past on a courtesy electric caur.
Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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All old bonds were snapped in a moment; emigration (at first opposed by some of the chiefs) and the French wars depleted the country of its “lang-leggit callants, gaun wanting the breeks.”
Rob Roy 2005
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The boy had scarce heard of these vanities, or he might have been minded of a nymph and satyr, if anybody could have taken long-leggit Janet for
Lay Morals 2005
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He's a snod bit stockie -- a little beld, an 'bowd-leggit, an' wants a thoom.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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_And lang-leggit callants gaun wanting the breeks; _
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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He was sittin 'behind the counter upon the lang three-leggit stool that stood fornent Mr. Weft's desk, and was turning ower the leaves of his ledger, wi' a look which, for auld-fashioned sagaciousness, was wonderfu 'to behold.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various
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"An 'what brings the lang-leggit speldron howkin' an 'scrauchlin' owre the Clints o 'Drumore an' the Dungeon o 'Buchan?"
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Mon, ye're a bull-neckit, bow-leggit chiel ', and ye'd shape fine for a Gowfer!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 Various 1876
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