legged
English
editPronunciation
edit- (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈlɛɡd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈlɛɡəd/
- (verb form) IPA(key): /ˈlɛɡd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛɡɪd, -ɛɡd, -ɛɡəd
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
Adjective
editlegged (not comparable)
- Having legs of a certain specified type or number. [from 14th c.]
- Antonym: legless
- Coordinate term: armed
- 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.
- Having legs; provided with legs. [from 16th c.]
- Antonym: legless
- 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.
- 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
editcompound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
Derived terms
editterms derived from “legged”
- black-legged kittiwake
- black-legged tick
- bow-legged wi' brass
- eight-legged essay
- feather-legged bug
- four-legged friend
- frog-legged beetle
- 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
- slaty-legged crake
- 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”
Translations
edithaving legs, or certain type or number of legs
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Noun
editlegged (plural leggeds)
- (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
editVerb
editlegged
- simple past and past participle of leg
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