crook shanks
Anne | April 10th, 2009 | No Comments »A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-legged Walk; his legs grew in the night, therefore could not see to grow straight; jeering sayings of men with crooked legs.
-From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Also, the name of a cat.










