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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (adjective) IPA(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈfɔː(ɹ)lɛɡd/
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- (noun) IPA(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: (noun) -ɛɡɪd
Adjective
[edit]four-legged (not comparable)
- Having four legs.
Synonyms
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[edit]having four legs
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Noun
[edit]four-legged (plural four-leggeds)
- An animal that walks on four legs.
- 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:
- The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.
- 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:
- We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.
- 2013, Vine Deloria Jr., edited by James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:
- It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds—human beings and birds—were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.
- An intersection where two roads cross.
- 1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections:
- With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.
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