legged

English

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈlɛɡd/

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  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡəd/
• (verb form) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡɪd, -ɛɡd, -ɛɡəd

Etymology 1

From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

legged (not comparable)

1. Having legs of a certain specified type or number. [from 14th c.]

   Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.

   Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:

     The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.

2. Having legs; provided with legs. [from 16th c.]

   A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots

   • 1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111:

     Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.

   • 1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10:

     DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities

   • 2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, →ISBN, page 6:

     Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.

3. Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61:

     Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!

Hyponyms

compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”

• badger-legged
• baker-legged
• bandy-legged
• barelegged
• bow-legged
• cross-legged
• duck-legged
• light-legged
• long-legged
• peg-legged
• puff-legged
• rough-legged
• short-legged
• spraddle-legged

 

Derived terms

terms derived from “legged”

• black-legged kittiwake
• black-legged tick
• bow-legged wi' brass
• eight-legged essay
• feather-legged bug
• four-legged friend
• grey-legged tinamou
• leggedness (noun)
• long-legged buzzard
• long-legged fly
• one legged
• peg legged
• red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
• red-legged partridge
• red-legged tinamou
• rough-legged buzzard
• rough-legged hawk
• splay-legged
• thread-legged bug
• three-legged race
• two-legged beast
• two-legged tie
• yellow-legged gull
• yellow-legged tinamou

 

compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”

• one-legged
• two-legged
• three-legged
• four-legged
• multilegged
• no-legged

 

Translations

having legs, or certain type or number of legs

• Finnish: jalallinen (having leg or legs); -jalkainen, -säärinen (having certain type of legs); -lahkeinen (of garments, having certain type of legs)
• Swedish: -bent (sv)

Noun

legged (plural leggeds)

1. (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs

   Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.

Etymology 2

leg (“verb”) +‎ -ed

Verb

legged

1. simple past and past participle of leg

Anagrams

• gledge