one-legged

one-legged

[wuhn-legd, -leg-id]
adjective
1.
having only one leg.
2.
one-sided, as an argument or point of view.
3.
ineffectual because certain basic elements, measures, etc., are lacking: one-legged legislation.

Origin:
1835–45

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One-legged is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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