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单词 two-legged
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two-leggedadj.

/ˈtuːlɛɡd//ˈtuːlɛɡᵻd/
Having two legs: usually as an epithet suggestive of a human being having the qualities of the animal named. Also figurative.
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two-legged1560
manlike1590
walkinga1616
hominiform1678
human-like1748
anthropomorphous1753
anthropomorphic1827
anthropoid1835
personified1851
bimanal1859
anthropoidal1865
humanoid1914
hominoid1950
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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.
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