daddy-long-legs—a long-legged flying insect (Pholcus phalangioides):
- On breezy days, the daddy long-legs get blown onto rivers in big enough numbers to cause quite a stir in the trout world.
long-legs—a wading bird (Himantopus himantopus):
- Longlegs is a long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.