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Etymology

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leggy +‎ -ly

Adverb

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leggily (comparative more leggily, superlative most leggily)

  1. In a leggy manner.
    • 2008 March 30, Leslie Kaufman, “Channeling Carrie”, in New York Times[1]:
      MAYBE, just maybe, if Carrie Bradshaw, the dynamo at the center of the phenomenally successful television series “Sex and the City,” were still in her 20s and just starting her ascent into New York life in 2008, maybe, just maybe, she would be like Julia Allison, who this evening is sitting leggily astride a leather ottoman in Houston’s, a bar in the Flatiron District.