Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An insect having long legs, such as the Tipula oleracea or common crane-fly and its congeners. See
daddy-longlegs . - noun The European stilt, Himantopus candidus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A
daddy longlegs .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
daddy longlegs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
- noun long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
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Examples
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And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day.
Kim Bensen: Things my mom showed me Kim Bensen 2010
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And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day.
Kim Bensen: Things my mom showed me Kim Bensen 2010
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Not even those daddy longlegs that are supposed to be harmless.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day.
Kim Bensen: Things my mom showed me Kim Bensen 2010
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And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day.
Kim Bensen: Things my mom showed me Kim Bensen 2010
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Not even those daddy longlegs that are supposed to be harmless.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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He has never been partial to the supports that, like the legs of daddy longlegs spiders, angle out from lower decks to hold them upright while their keels rest on the forest floor, but there was no better way to park a sharp-keeled ship on land.
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And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day.
Kim Bensen: Things my mom showed me Kim Bensen 2010
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And ready to stop hiding out with the bikes, tools, and a spry daddy longlegs spider.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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As Dad now says, Kerri looked like a daddy longlegs spider out on the sand.
Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010
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