legged en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈlɛɡɪd/
- /ˈlɛɡəd/ weak vowel merger
- /ˈlɛɡd/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
Meanings
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
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.
1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.
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(not-comparable) Having legs; provided with legs.
A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots.
DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities
1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10:Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.
1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111: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.
2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, →ISBN, page 6:
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(not-comparable) Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.
Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!
1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61:
Antonyms
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Deriveds
four-legged emmet (terms derived from “legged”) · yellow-legged gull (terms derived from “legged”) · two-legged tie (terms derived from “legged”) · long-legged fly (terms derived from “legged”) · rough-legged buzzard (terms derived from “legged”) · feather-legged bug (terms derived from “legged”) · spot-legged poison frog (terms derived from “legged”) · two-legged eel (terms derived from “legged”) · bow-legged wi' brass (terms derived from “legged”) · thousand-legged worm (terms derived from “legged”) · rough-legged hawk (terms derived from “legged”) · splay-legged (terms derived from “legged”) · yellow-legged tinamou (terms derived from “legged”) · eight-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · stout-legged moa (terms derived from “legged”) · three-legged race (terms derived from “legged”) · two-legged mare (terms derived from “legged”) · red-legged cormorant (terms derived from “legged”) · three-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · four-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · three-legged mare (terms derived from “legged”) · ride the three-legged mare (terms derived from “legged”) · red-legged tinamou (terms derived from “legged”) · black-legged kittiwake (terms derived from “legged”) · two-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · eight-legged essay (terms derived from “legged”) · peg legged (terms derived from “legged”) · multilegged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · no-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · five-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · slaty-legged crake (terms derived from “legged”) · four-legged friend (terms derived from “legged”) · grey-legged tinamou (terms derived from “legged”) · thread-legged bug (terms derived from “legged”) · Three-legged mare (terms derived from “legged”) · long-legged buzzard (terms derived from “legged”) · black-legged tick (terms derived from “legged”) · red-legged golden orb-weaver spider (terms derived from “legged”) · one legged (terms derived from “legged”) · frog-legged beetle (terms derived from “legged”) · one-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · spindle-legged (terms derived from “legged”) · six-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”) · red-legged partridge (terms derived from “legged”) · leggedness (terms derived from “legged”)
Hyponyms
cross-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · long-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · bandy-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · rough-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · wooden-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · badger-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · light-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · duck-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · bow-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · puff-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · peg-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · spraddlelegged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · baker-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · short-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · spraddle-legged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”) · barelegged (compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”)
Translations (5)
fi -jalkainen (having legs, or certain type or number of legs) · fi jalallinen (having legs, or certain type or number of legs) · fi -säärinen (having legs, or certain type or number of legs) · sv -bent (having legs, or certain type or number of legs) · fi -lahkeinen (having legs, or certain type or number of legs)