cross-leggedadverb
uk/ˌkrɒsˈleɡd//ˌkrɒsˈleɡ.ɪd/us/ˌkrɑːsˈleɡd//ˌkrɑːsˈleɡ.ɪd/having your feet crossed over each other, but your knees wide apart, usually while sitting on the floor
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- crouch
- ease
- four
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- rampant
- seated
- seating
- sit back
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
- weight
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Examples from literature
- Eric and the Wind Children sat cross-legged and waited.
- Even the Buddha himself, cross-legged and imperturbable, had to sit for his portrait.
- He found the old man sitting cross-legged on a mat in the dirty, almost bare apartment.
- I found him in a simple room, sitting cross-legged in a window recess from which he can see the temple roofs and the lofty mountains and the sinful town in the valley.
- The old woman sat down cross-legged by the charcoal, and began to fan it.