spraddle-legged

[ sprad-l-leg-id, -legd ]

adjective

1. moving with or having the legs wide apart:

   a spraddle-legged walk.

adverb

1. with the legs sprawled, spread apart, etc.:

   sitting spraddle-legged on the chair.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spraddle-legged¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

“President Putin and I have been discussing various things, and I think it’s going very well,” Mr. Trump said at the start of the meeting, as both men sat spraddle-legged in chairs arranged side by side.

From New York Times

His hindparts shiver with the usual joyful, mindless ache to mount whatever happens near—the storm piling up black towers to the west, some rotting, docile stump, some spraddle-legged ewe.

From Literature

It looked around and saw me and went on down the hall, spraddle-legged, with its wings kind of hunkered out, watching me first over one shoulder and then over the other, like a old baldheaded man.

From Literature

It looked around and saw me and went on down the hall, spraddle-legged, with its wings kind of hunkered out, watching me first over one shoulder and then over the other, like a old baldheaded man.

From Literature

I had to sit down in Miss Lacy’s chair spraddle-legged.

From Literature