Meanings
- not comparableOf an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.
[…] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording.
2013, Tim Crook, The Sound Handbook, page 1001 more example
[…] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion.
2000, Philip Richard Newell, Project Studios: A More Professional Approach, page 40
plural one-leggeds
- A plant, especially a tree.
We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.
2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 1132 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
Ancient Greek μονοσκελής
- μονοσκελής (monoskelḗs)having only one leg
Bulgarian еднокра́к
- еднокра́к (ednokrák)having only one leg
Czech jednonohý
- jednonohýhaving only one leg
Danish enbenet
- enbenethaving only one leg
Dutch eenbenig
- eenbenighaving only one leg
Finnish yksijalkainen
- yksijalkainenhaving only one leg
French unijambiste
- unijambistehaving only one leg
German einbeinig
- einbeinighaving only one leg
Icelandic einfættur
- einfætturhaving only one leg
Polish jednonogi
- jednonogihaving only one leg
Portuguese coxo, perneta
- coxohaving only one leg
- pernetahaving only one leg
Russian одноно́гий
- одноно́гий (odnonógij)having only one leg
Slovak jednonohý
- jednonohýhaving only one leg
Spanish one-leggedly: a la pata coja, a la coxcojita
- one-leggedly: a la pata cojahaving only one leg
- a la coxcojitahaving only one leg
- a coxcojitahaving only one leg
- a coxcoxhaving only one leg
Swedish enbent
- enbenthaving only one leg
Ukrainian одноно́гий
- одноно́гий (odnonóhyj)having only one leg
Cite this entry
one-legged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one-legged
“one-legged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one-legged. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “one-legged,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one-legged.
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