long-legs

Questions about long-legs

What does long-legs mean?

long-legs means "long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons".

How many syllables are in long-legs?

long-legs has 2 syllables: lon-g-legs. The stress falls on "lon".

What is another word for long-legs?

Close synonyms include stilt, stiltbird, longlegs, stilt plover, Himantopus stilt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is long-legs a common word?

long-legs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.