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cross-legged

cross-legged adjective: having one leg over and across the other.

Adjective

cross-legged (not comparable)

  1. Having one leg over and across the other.
    • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.
    • She sits cross-legged on her charpai' as I look at old pictures.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 36

Adverb

cross-legged (not comparable)

  1. In a cross-legged position.

cross-legged meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Malay and Persian

cross-legged in Tamil

அட்டணைக்கால்

cross-legged in Tagalog

having one leg over and across the other
tansila

cross-legged in Malay

having one leg over and across the other
duduk bersilang kaki, duduk bertindih lutut, bersila panggung
having one ankle over and across the other
duduk bersila

cross-legged in Persian

having one ankle over and across the other
چارزانو čârzânu

Synonyms of cross-legged

All synonyms of cross-legged

Questions about cross-legged

What does cross-legged mean?
Cross-legged means having one leg over and across the other.
What is cross-legged in Tamil?
Cross-legged in Tamil is அட்டணைக்கால். See Cross-legged meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cross-legged?
Cross-legged can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near cross-legged in the dictionary

  1. cross-kicked
  2. cross-kicking
  3. cross-kicks
  4. cross-lag
  5. cross-lags
  6. cross-legged
  7. cross-light
  8. cross-lights
  9. cross-linguistic
  10. cross-linguistically
  11. cross-link

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