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daddy-long-legs

daddy-long-legs

English

Noun

daddy-long-legs (plural daddy-long-legs)

  1. Alternative form of daddy longlegs
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 6
      A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe.