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Leggy vs Leggily - What's the difference?

leggy | leggily |

As an adjective leggy

is (uk|us) having long legs; long-legged.

As an adverb leggily is

in a leggy manner.

leggy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (UK, US) Having long legs; long-legged.
    • Fred preferred leggy blondes.
  • (UK) Having attractive legs.
  • Taller or longer than usual.
    • Plants grow leggy if deprived of light.

    leggily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a leggy manner.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 30, author=Leslie Kaufman, title=Channeling Carrie, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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. }}