1787. ‘G. Gambado,’ Acad. Horsemen (1809), 32. If you are a short man, you spur the saddle cloth; if you are leggy you never touch him [the horse] at all.
1827. Sporting Mag., XX. 170. Great numbers of our racers … have always been too leggy.
1883. Stevenson, Silverado Sq. (1886), 67. He looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road.
b. slang. Characterized by a display of legs.
1866. Daily Tel., 10 Jan., 7/3. This festival … has been pitiably vulgarised … by Christmas numbers of periodicals, Christmas concerts, leggy burlesques.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Oct., 1/2. ‘Leggy’ burlesques.
