no-legged

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English

Etymology

From no +‎ legged.

Adjective

no-legged (not comparable)

  1. Having no legs; legless.
    • 1828, Isaac Clarkson Snowden, B. R. Evans, Philadelphia Monthly Magazine - Volume 2, page 107:
      "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 --"
    • 2009, Max Pemberton, Where Does it Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor did next, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2014, John Thompson, No backing down, →ISBN, page 85:
      For the one or no-legged amputees, they started breakdancing on the floor.

Translations

Noun

no-legged (plural no-leggeds)

  1. Someone or something without legs, such as a snake or a rock.
    • 2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN:
      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, ...
    • 2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256:
      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 arrowheads "fossilized thoughts"), the shaft its body, the feathers its wings.
    • 2013, Arvis Locklear Boughman, Legends of The Lumbee (and some that will be), →ISBN, page 33:
      The no-leggeds, the snakes, also joined the gathering.

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