clean-limbed
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English
Etymology
From clean (“shapely, well-proportioned”) + limbed (“having limbs of a specified kind or quality”, adjective).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkliːnˈlɪmd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌklinˈlɪmd/
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Adjective
clean-limbed (comparative more clean-limbed, superlative most clean-limbed)
- (dated) Having a slender, athletic body; lithe.
- 1898, Gertrude Atherton, chapter VI, in The Valiant Runaways, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 60:
- He was big and clean-limbed and sinewy, with small cunning eyes, a resolute mouth and chin, and an air of perfect fearlessness. Roldan warmed to him, and looked with admiration and envy at the muscles on his splendid limbs.
- 1920 December, Wilber Wales Wheeler, “Angel Man”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LXXI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A Munsey Company, , published 1921, →OCLC, page 573, column 2:
- He was one of those clean-cut and clean-limbed men that young girls like to dream about—frank, honest, and with a keen sense of humor—for a man.
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Further reading
- “clean-limbed, adj.” under “clean-, adj. and adv.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1889. - “clean-limbed, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
