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The name daddy-long-legs beginning is unknown. It is suspected to have come from a book by Jean Webster about a girl in an orphanage whose benefactor is a tall man whom has long legs and she calls him Daddy Long Legs.

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daddy long legs have mouths so small that they cant bite you

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Because of its rather long legs

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