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legged

[ leg-id, legd ]

adjective

  1. having a specified number or kind of legs (often used in combination):

    two-legged; long-legged.

  2. fitted with legs:

    a legged desk.



legged

/ lɛɡd; ˈlɛɡɪd /

adjective

    1. having a leg or legs
    2. ( in combination )

      three-legged

      long-legged



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Word History and Origins

Origin of legged1

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; leg, -ed 3

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Example Sentences

Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.

I often sit on the floor and work cross-legged with my laptop.

And humility, well, that's about as useful as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest.

In the distance I spotted banners on buildings and a pair of one-legged fishermen balancing with large cone-shaped nets.

At eight o'clock the team filed out to warm up, Sawchuck leading, wide-legged in his goalie pads, and Howe last.

There was one honest dog in that company, but the two-legged specimen was a little "too sweet to be wholesome."

She wore soiled Burberry, high-legged tan boots, and a peaked cap of distinctly military appearance.

The children like to see their father and Frank sit on their three-legged stools in the stalls and milk the cows.

This is that he is a long-legged and short-armed animal, a condition the reverse of that seen in the anthropoid apes.

"No," she exclaimed with dainty aplomb to the man who sat cross-legged in muslin draperies on the table.

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