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Definition: Legged |
LeggedAdjective1. Having legs of a specified kind or number; "four-legged animals"; "a peg-legged man". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "legged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
| Antonym: legless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distortion | Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Legged |
| Specialty definitions using "legged": IMPALE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You should know being his little eight legged lieutenant (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Get back you eight legged freaks (Eight Legged Freaks; writing credit: Ellory Elkayem; Randy Kornfield) No, I'm talking about what you really want like right now, like revenge on the one legged bitch in black and white (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell) Last one up the hill is a three legged dog (Young Guns II; writing credit: John Fusco) Here's to swimmin' with bow legged women (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eight Legged Freaks (2002) | |
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 | Long legged, large beaked bird with feathers plucked, labeled Hughes governor, Parker nominated, McClellan mayor, and one remaining, Independence League. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. New York, 3 legged race, anniversary of Santiago. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Arachnophobia 6" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "A big spindly legged green alien-looking spider who has *gulp* since disappeared..." |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. This was a common mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is still in high favor in China and other parts of Asia. Down to the beginning of the fifteenth century it was widely employed in "churching" heretics and schismatics. Wolecraft calls it the "stoole of repentynge," and among the common people it was jocularly known as "riding the one legged horse." Ludwig Salzmann informs us that in Thibet impalement is considered the most appropriate punishment for crimes against religion; and although in China it is sometimes awarded for secular offences, it is most frequently adjudged in cases of sacrilege. To the person in actual experience of impalement it must be a matter of minor importance by what kind of civil or religious dissent he was made acquainted with its discomforts; but doubtless he would feel a certain satisfaction if able to contemplate himself in the character of a weather-cock on the spire of the True Church. |
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| "Legged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 62.79% of the time. "Legged" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 62.79% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 30.23% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "legged": bow legged ♦ two legged. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "legged": bow-legged, eight-legged, longer-legged, one-legged, red-legged, six-legged, spindly-legged, stiff-legged, three-legged, two-legged, yellow-legged. | |
Containing "legged": black-legged tick, gate-legged table, hairy-legged vampire bat, Long-legged plover, one-legged person, Red-legged crow, red-legged gull, red-legged partridge, rough-legged buzzard, rough-legged hawk, thousand-legged worm, three-legged stool, western black-legged tick, yellow-legged plover. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "legged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dykëmbësh (biped, two legged). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقوس القدمين (bow legged), قوسي القدمين (bow legged), ذو قائمتين (two legged), ثنائي الأقدام (two legged). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | двукрак (biped, bipedal, two legged, two-footed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有腿. (various references) | |
Czech | křivonohý (bow legged), dvounohý (two legged), dlouhonohý (leggy, long-legged, spindle-legged). (various references) | |
French | bipède (two legged), aux jambe arquées (bow legged). (various references) | |
German | beinig. (various references) | |
Greek | έχων σκέλη ή κνήμεσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקושת רגלים (bow legged), עקל (bandy, bow legged, kink, knock kneed), דו רגלי (two legged). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ó-lábú (bandy-legged, bow legged). (various references) | |
Italian | dalle gambe, con le gambe. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 片足 (one leg, one-legged). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かたあし (one leg, one-legged). (various references) | |
Manx | cassit (contorted, distorted, swung, twirled, twisted). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eggedlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | de pernas tortas (bandy-legged, leggy). (various references) | |
Romanian | cu picioare strâmbe (bow legged, knock kneed), cu douã picioare (two legged), crãcãnat (bandy, bandy-legged, bow legged, sprawling), biped (biped, bipedal, two legged). (various references) | |
Russian | двуногий (biped, bipedal, two legged, two-footed, two-legged), длинноногий (leggy, long-legged, rangy, spindle-legged). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji ima noge. (various references) | |
Spanish | con patas. (various references) | |
Swedish | hjulbent (bandy-legged, bow legged, bowlegged, bow-legged). (various references) | |
Turkish | bacaklı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | двоногий (biped, bipedal, two legged, two-footed). (various references) | |
Welsh | heglog (leggy, long-legged). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Alectoris rufa, Buteo lagopus, Buteo rufinus, Chaetocnema concinna, Hoplia communis, Larus argentatus cachinnans, Larus cachinnans, Linopodes antennaepes, Necrobia rufipes, Penthaleus haematopus, Penthaleus major, RM:girun pe lung, RM:girun pe pailus, RM:muetta dal chau alv, RM:pernisch cotschna, Uloborus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "legged": bootlegged, bowlegged, doglegged. (additional references) | |
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"Legged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flegged, lagge, lege, leget, Leggada, leggat, leggedy, leggerd, legget, Legoda, Liggat, Llegada, logget, luggen, luggey, vegged. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "legged" (pronounced le"gud or le"gd) |
| 3 | -g u d | ragged, rugged. |
| 3 | -e" g d | begged, egged, pegged. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-g-l" | |
-1 letter: egged, glede, gleed, ledge. | |
-2 letters: dele, edge, geed, geld, gled, glee, gleg. | |
-3 letters: dee, del, eel, egg, eld, ged, gee, gel, led, lee, leg. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-g-l" | |
+2 letters: doggerel. | |
+3 letters: beclogged, bedraggle, beflagged, bowlegged, doggerels, doglegged, rejuggled. | |
+4 letters: bedraggled, bedraggles, bootlegged, daggerlike, delegating, geologized, loggerhead, repledging. | |
+5 letters: aggrievedly, becudgeling, leapfrogged, loggerheads, waterlogged. | |
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