Meanings
- not comparableHaving no legs; legless.
For the one or no-legged amputees, they started breakdancing on the floor.
2014, John Thompson, No backing down, →ISBN, page 852 more examples
"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 --"
1828, Isaac Clarkson Snowden, B. R. Evans, Philadelphia Monthly Magazine - Volume 2, page 107There 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.
2009, Max Pemberton, Where Does it Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor did next, →ISBN
plural no-leggeds
- Someone or something without legs, such as a snake or a rock.
The no-leggeds, the snakes, also joined the gathering.
2013, Arvis Locklear Boughman, Legends of The Lumbee (and some that will be), →ISBN, page 332 more examples
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, ...
2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBNThe 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.
2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Finnish jalaton
- jalatonhaving no legs — see also legless
Turkish bacaksız
- bacaksızhaving no legs — see also legless
Cite this entry
no-legged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no-legged
“no-legged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no-legged. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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