legged

Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs

Adjective

  1. Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
    • Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
    • Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.
    • 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:

    Antonyms: legless

    Coordinate Terms: armed

  2. 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.
    • 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:
    • 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:

    Antonyms: legless

  3. 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:

    Coordinate Terms: brained winged

Origin

From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.

Hyponyms

badger-legged baker-legged bandy-legged barelegged bow-legged cross-legged duck-legged light-legged long-legged peg-legged puff-legged rough-legged short-legged spraddle-legged spraddlelegged wooden-legged

Derived

black-legged kittiwake black-legged tick bow-legged wi' brass eight-legged essay feather-legged bug four-legged emmet four-legged friend frog-legged beetle grey-legged tinamou leggedness long-legged buzzard long-legged fly one legged peg legged red-legged cormorant red-legged golden orb-weaver spider red-legged partridge red-legged tinamou ride the three-legged mare rough-legged buzzard rough-legged hawk slaty-legged crake spindle-legged splay-legged

Noun

  1. Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
    • Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.

Forms

leggeds

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of leg

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.