spindly-legged

Many older women become very broad in the hip and spindly-legged, looking like a duck from the rear, when wearing pants.

Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009

We found a spindly-legged arrow crab wedged into a corner of the pilothouse.

See-Worthy Darrell Hartman 2012

He motions across the brambly yard to the aqua-blue tank that looms like a spindly-legged giant or a flying saucer just readying for flight.

The Angels and Jo-Jo Mason « A Fly in Amber 2009

It included the blue-skinned Ortolan keyboardist Max Rebo, a plump Kitonak woodwind player named Droopy Mccool, and the spindly-legged Pa'lowick lead singer Sy Snootles-wiki

Star Wars' Max Rebo Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

Having encountered the beast whilst I was afoot, I would also suggest comparison with a spindly-legged horse.

jhetley: Got Moose, now get Squirrel! jhetley 2010

And it's all spindly-legged and shaky for a few damp, slimy, afterbirth-coated minutes while its mother looks on nervously?

It's a metaphor. A simile, I mean. cherie_priest 2006

Pale, thin and spindly-legged, he somehow shuffled the 26.2 miles in the company of nine-time winner Grete Waitz.

Across The Finish Line 2008

I never knew her as a puppy; when first I laid eyes on her she was a spindly-legged adolescent who had not yet mastered the finer points of housebreaking.

Dogs and other yardsticks 2006

But you have to admit that's one cool spindly-legged insect, right?

Review: Pan's Labyrinth K. A. Laity 2007

I've seen her in washed-out 8mm films and faded polaroids prints, the way she was in the mid-1960s, slim and pretty and smiling as she walked a spindly-legged black colt around a pasture behind a home that no longer exists.

Simple Tricks and Nonsense: Death in the Family 2004