spindleshanks

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Spin´dle`shanks`

A person with slender shanks, or legs; - used humorously or in contempt.

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Noun	1.	spindleshanks - a thin person with long thin legs spindlelegs scrag, skin and bones, thin person - a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
	2.	spindleshanks - long thin legs spindlelegs leg - a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle

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spindleshanks [ˈspɪndlʃæŋks] N → zanquivano/a m/f

spindleshanks

n (inf)

pl (= legs) → Streichholzbeine pl (inf), → Stelzen pl (inf)

sing (= person) → Langbein nt (inf)

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