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no-legged

no-legged adjective: having no legs; legless.

Adjective

no-legged (not comparable)

  1. Having no legs; legless.
    • "I told you so," grumbled the downfallen hero, without making an effort to rise : " I told you there was no man in his sober senses could manage a two-legged chair ; for a two- legged chair is like a one-legged man, or rather a no-legged man --"1828, Isaac Clarkson Snowden, B. R. Evans, Philadelphia Monthly Magazine - Volume 2, page 107
    • There was no one behind me so I looked down, and the one-eyed, no-legged man from earlier that day was peering up at me from his skateboard and I tried to fix my stare on his one good eye.2009, Max Pemberton, Where Does it Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor did next, →ISBN

Noun

no-legged (plural no-leggeds)

  1. Someone or something without legs, such as a snake or a rock.
    • In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ...2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN
    • The arrow, for instance, combines gifts of stone for the head (from no-leggeds, who live within the Earth), wood for the shaft (from one-leggeds, trees, who unite Earth and Sky, and resembling the bole), and feathers (from two-leggeds, who live in the Sky); the stone is its head (Thoreau called...2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256

Examples of no-legged in a sentence

  • For the one or no-legged amputees, they started breakdancing on the floor.2014, John Thompson, No backing down, →ISBN, page 85:
  • The no-leggeds, the snakes, also joined the gathering.2013, Arvis Locklear Boughman, Legends of The Lumbee (and some that will be), →ISBN, page 33:

Forms of no-legged

pluralno-leggeds

Origin of no-legged

From no + legged.

Questions about no-legged

What does no-legged mean?
No-legged means having no legs; legless.
How do you use no-legged in a sentence?
For the one or no-legged amputees, they started breakdancing on the floor.
What part of speech is no-legged?
No-legged can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near no-legged in the dictionary

  1. no-jump
  2. no-jumps
  3. no-kill shelter
  4. no-kill shelters
  5. no-knock
  6. no-legged
  7. no-leggeds
  8. no-life
  9. no-lifed
  10. no-lifer
  11. no-lifers

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