light-legged
English edit
Etymology edit
From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + legged (“having legs”, adjective).
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: lītʹlĕg'(ĭ)d
Adjective edit
light-legged (comparative more light-legged, superlative most light-legged)
- Nimble; swift of foot.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- Pas dared not Cosma chase
, but did intend next bout with her to meet
, so he with Nous to Geron turned their race,
with whom to join fast ran Urania sweet.
But light-legged Pas had got the middle space