spindleshanks

He was dressed in Knickerbockers, with red stockings, which displayed his poor little spindleshanks; he also wore a brilliant red cravat.

"Odds fudge—you have spindleshanks!" cried Madcap Moll irrelevantly.

To think I feared you once, old spindleshanks!

The oarsman will become "stale" unless the method of exercise is varied; the gymnast will develop the upper part of his body, while his lower extremities will remain spindleshanks.