be-leggined

See also: beleggined

English

Adjective

be-leggined (not comparable)

1. Dated form of belegginged.
   • 1903 May 30, “The National Guard”, in The Chattanooga News, volume XXIII, number 130, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 7, column 2:

     What made this youth remarkable was that he was clad in all the pomp and glory of war, he was be-spurred, be-campaigned hatted, be-leggined, and be-sabred, and be-trussed like any old swashbuckler out of Old Whitechapel.

   • 1920 January 8, “The Way It Works”, in Gastonia Daily Gazette, volume XLI, number 7, Gastonia, N.C., page four, column 1:

     Right worthily do they with their be-goggled and be-leggined riders “put-put-put” over our streets.

   • 1925, Hugh Pendexter, “The Wife-Ship Woman”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 73, number 18, Victoria, B.C., published 23 July 1928, page 7:

     I grabbed one of her be-leggined ankles and yanked her to the ground and glared savagely as she would have opened her mouth to scream.

   • 1932 March 13, “Youngsters Like to Learn Under New School Methods. Five-Year-Olds Start Music, Babies Begin French at Flatbush Montessori Institution.”, in The Brooklyn Daily Times; The Standard Union, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 10A, column 5:

     The two and three-year-olds, who come at nine o’clock, arrive be-leggined and be-muffled, and the teachers have become adept at manipulating zippers.

   • 1956 December 31, “‘Troilus and Cressida’ Given Farce Treatment”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXVI, page 7:

     Thersites, who is a sort of one-man chorus for Shakespeare in his barbed commentary on war, lechery and assorted follies of man, shows up in the person of John Neville as a be-leggined, Norfolk-jacketed combination of early war correspondent and photographer.