stiltish

adj — 2 senses

stiltish

adj

Etymology From stilt + -ish.

1

Resembling stilts; stiltlike

  • From the beginning, the child called Margar was shockingly like him. She developed stiltish legs and dangling arms, flat brown hair, and eyes that loomed in her face as though not quite fixed there – too big for the fine bones, too searching.2012, Kristen Den Hartog, Origin of Haloes:
2

stilted; awkward

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