bowlegged


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bow·leg·ged

 (bō′lĕg′ĭd, -lĕgd′)
adj.
Having bowlegs.
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Adj.1.bowlegged - have legs that curve outward at the kneesbowlegged - have legs that curve outward at the knees
unfit - not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"
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bowlegged

adj con genu varo (form), con las piernas arqueadas
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References in classic literature ?
The cattle, bald in patches where the new hair had not grown yet, lowed in the pastures; the bowlegged lambs frisked round their bleating mothers.
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Bob Snyder asks if you've seen a bowlegged, aged handball player--and who hasn't?
They also noticed he was bowlegged, a condition that meant he walked with a "distinctive gait," Hayes said.
Two of my friends, a man and a woman, were bowlegged, but after they had undergone knee-replacement surgery, their knees had straightened perfectly.
Williams gloated about walking "bowlegged" after waiting for him naked in bed at his home last August, a jury was told.
At the New jersey Museum of Agriculture (now closed) on the Rutgers University campus in North Brunswick, N.J., there was a curved shin tile, formed on the shin of a man who was bowlegged.
It features Louis Jordan's 1939 song "Doug the Jitterbug," Wynonie Harris' 1950 R&B version of Hank Penny's "Bloodshot Eyes" and Bull Moose Jackson's 1947 "I Want a Bowlegged Woman," among others.
We might think that nobody would knowingly admit to certain defects like being bowlegged or pigeon-toed, and then we meet a mother who brings up in every conversation that her daughter has the widest feet the doctor has ever seen.
R&B performers/producers Paul Anthony and Bowlegged Lou from the group Full Force served as emcees for this wonderful event, which included live performances from Terry Huff and Kevin Downing.
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The little bowlegged creatures march like clockwork, their bare feet slapping the cracked asphalt, and the milk sloshes from their narrow necks in standardized, regular motions.