two-legged
/tuːˈlɛɡɪd/
two-legged adjective: having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.
Adjective
two-legged (not comparable)
- Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.
- two-legged animals two-legged shears
- And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting clack, […]1766, James Beattie, “[Miscellany Poems.] The Wolf and Shepherds, a Fable.”, in Poems on Several Subjects. […], new edition, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 113–114
Noun
two-legged (plural two-leggeds)
- Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.
- 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
- Because most of the animals had learned to distrust the two-leggeds, they shrank back into the forest.2011, Allan J. Hamilton, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN
Forms of two-legged
| plural | two-leggeds |
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Origin of two-legged
From two + legged.
Words formed from two-legged
Phrases with two-legged
Questions about two-legged
- What does two-legged mean?
- Two-legged means having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.
- What part of speech is two-legged?
- Two-legged can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce two-legged?
- Two-legged is pronounced /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/.
Words near two-legged in the dictionary
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