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four-legged en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈfɔː(ɹ)lɛɡd/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From four + legged.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having four legs.

Forms

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fourlegged alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

four-legged friend

Translations (25)

lt keturkojis (having four legs) · sk štvornohý (having four legs) · gu ચોપગું (having four legs) · pl czteronogi (having four legs) · fr tétrapode (having four legs) · uk четвероно́гий (having four legs) · fr à quatre pattes (having four legs) · nl vierbenig (having four legs) · pt quadrúpede (having four legs) · ka ოთხფეხა (having four legs) · la quadrupēs (having four legs) · de vierbeinig (having four legs) · lt keturkojė (having four legs) · pl czteronożny (having four legs) · nl vierpotig (having four legs) · ru четвероно́гий (having four legs) · be чатырохно́гі (having four legs) · da firbenet (having four legs) · pl czworonogi (having four legs) · fr quadrupède (having four legs) · fi nelijalkainen (having four legs) · gl cuadrúpede (having four legs) · hy չորքոտանի (having four legs) · de vierfüßig (having four legs) · pl czworonożny (having four legs)

four-legged en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From four + legged.

Meanings

  1. An animal that has four legs.
    • It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds—human beings and birds—were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others. 2013, Vine Deloria Jr., edited by James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:
    • The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds. 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:
    • We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred. 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:
  2. An intersection where two roads cross.
    • With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds. 1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections:

Forms

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fourlegged alternative lexicographic
four-leggeds Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

three-legged · two-footed · two-legged · decapodal · bipedal · octopodous

Synonyms

tetrapod · quadruped