Long-legs in a sentence as a noun

After googleing it, i found that daddy long-legs is actually 3 different species.

I eventually realized that the daddy-long-legs variant in my house seemed to compete handily with them.

My ~2 year old daughter was completely fascinated by that, when I showed her... of course, she thinks all big spiders are tarantulas; she calls the daddy long-legs spiders that.

Long-legs definitions

noun

long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons

See also: stilt stiltbird longlegs