"short-legged" meaning in English

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          "text": "The two dogs were beagles, shortlegged and frantic, leaping in and out of the chest-high fall of snow, or plowing their noses through it and furrowing snow up and past their ears, their tails spinning, then looking up with white brows and whiskers, gnomic and hoary-faced as little old men.",
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          "text": "A droll man with a quiet voice and a talent for mimicking almost anyone with tart accuracy, he had the mate down to a fault already, that officer's shortlegged strut, his mad glare and, at a much—reduced volume to avoid detection, his bullhorn bellow.",
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "having short legs",
          "word": "camacurt"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having short legs",
          "word": "lyhytjalkainen"
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          "sense": "having short legs",
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          "sense": "having short legs",
          "word": "court sur pattes"
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          "sense": "having short legs",
          "word": "kurzbeinig"
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          "roman": "mikroskelís",
          "sense": "having short legs",
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          "roman": "mikroskelḗs",
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          "sense": "having short legs",
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          "roman": "bacaksız",
          "sense": "having short legs",
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          "sense": "having short legs",
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          "roman": "korotkonógij",
          "sense": "having short legs",
          "word": "коротконо́гий"
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          "sense": "having short legs",
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      "sense": "having short legs",
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      "sense": "having short legs",
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      "sense": "having short legs",
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      "sense": "having short legs",
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      "sense": "having short legs",
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