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Definition of "daddy-long-legs" [daddy-long-legs]

  • Common misspelling of daddy longlegs. (noun)

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Use "daddy-long-legs" in a sentence
  • "Kiri, meanwhile, had captured a light emerald in the pillbox, and we had been joined by a meadow grasshopper and a giant cranefly, the biggest of its tribe I have ever seen, with big patterned wings like clear church windows: the daddy of all daddy-long-legs."
  • "And her garden was a voyage of discovery into frogs and daddy-long-legs and apple trees, and brambles."
  • "Then one night, a daddy-long-legs had hovered near."