单词 | two-legged |
释义 | two-leggedadj. Having two legs: usually as an epithet suggestive of a human being having the qualities of the animal named. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [adjective] > of human form two-legged1560 manlike1590 walkinga1616 hominiform1678 human-like1748 anthropomorphous1753 anthropomorphic1827 anthropoid1835 personified1851 bimanal1859 anthropoidal1865 humanoid1914 hominoid1950 android- the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [adjective] leggeda1375 two-legged1560 crural1599 one-legged1636 monocolous1798 scelidate1877 1560 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodyake of Lyfe i. sig. Aviv What a sort there be of toolegd Asses clothed In golde and silke and purple. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Ei Thy neighbours hens yu takest, and playes the two legged foxe. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 206 Next to the Raven's Age, the Pylian King Was longest liv'd of any two-leg'd thing. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 345 A Kind of two-legged Wolves. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. ix. 170 The mate of the two-legged Cerberus. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. v. 584 Countries..infested with a new species of predatory two-legged animals: Prussian recruiters. 1930 W. K. Hancock Australia i. 28 In the very best wheat country the farmer will keep a flock of sheep, not only to make his economy ‘two-legged’, but also because sheep are an essential agricultural implement. 1976 Milton Keynes Express 16 July 39 Whereas last season the winners and runners-up of each section met in the semi finals, the winner and runner-up of the one league will meet in a two-legged final. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.1560 |
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