squat-bodied

Updated: June 18, 2025

Again and again he sprang vainly into the air comically, like a long-legged, squat-bodied frog. "And you brag of your agility and strength, Jean," she laughingly remarked; "but you can't take cherries when they are offered to you. What a clumsy bungler you are."

Maurice Thompson - Alice of Old Vincennes