daddy-long-legs in English

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          "ref": "1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 6",
          "text": "A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe."
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      "form": "daddy-long-legs",
      "tags": [
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    },
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"daddy-long-legs" meaning in English

Noun